[Commlist] new book: The Digital Border by Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou

We would like to announce a new publication from New York University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The Digital Border***

Migration, Technology, Power

*Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479873401/the-digital-border/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479873401/the-digital-border/> _*

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*Available in print and digital formats **__*

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How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration?

As the numbers of people fleeing war, poverty, and environmental 
disaster reach unprecedented levels worldwide, states also step up their 
mechanisms of border control. In this, they rely on digital 
technologies, big data, artificial intelligence, social media platforms, 
and institutional journalism to manage not only the flow of people at 
crossing-points, but also the flow of stories and images of human 
mobility that circulate among their publics.

What is the role of digital technologies is shaping migration today? How 
do digital infrastructures, platforms, and institutions control the flow 
of people at the border? And how do they also control the public 
narratives of migration as a “crisis”? Finally, how do migrants 
themselves use these same platforms to speak back and make themselves 
heard in the face of hardship and hostility?

Taking their case studies from the biggest migration event of the 
twenty-first century in the West, the 2015 European migration “crisis” 
and its aftermath up to 2020, Lilie Chouliaraki and Myria Georgiou offer 
a holistic account of the digital border as an expansive assemblage of 
technological infrastructures (from surveillance cameras to smartphones) 
and media imaginaries (stories, images, social media posts) to tell the 
story of migration as it unfolds in Europe’s outer islands as much as 
its most vibrant cities.

This is a story of exclusion, marginalization, and violence, but also of 
care, conviviality, and solidarity. Through it, the border emerges 
neither as strictly digital nor as totally controlling. Rather, the 
authors argue, the digital border is both digital and pre-digital; 
datafied and embodied; automated and self-reflexive; undercut by 
competing emotions, desires, and judgments; and traversed by fluid and 
fragile social relationships—relationships that entail both the despair 
of inhumanity and the promise of a better future.

*Lilie Chouliaraki*is Professor of Media and Communications at the 
London School of Economics, where she also serves as the department’s 
Doctoral Program Director. She is the author of several books, including 
/The Spectatorship of Suffering /and /The Ironic Spectator, Solidarity 
in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism/and co-editor of /The Routledge 
Handbook of Humanitarian Communication/

*Myria Georgiou*is Professor of Media and Communications at the London 
School of Economics, where she also serves as Research Director. She is 
the author, editor, and co-editor of five books, including /Diaspora, 
Identity and the Media/; /Media and the City: Cosmopolitanism and 
Difference/; and the /Sage Handbook of Media and Migration/.

*New York University Press**| Critical Cultural Communication | June 
2022 | 272pp | 9781479873401 | PB | £23.99**

*Price subject to change.

*The ebook version of this title available through all major digital 
vendors and retailers. If you wish to purchase this title for your 
library then please contact your library supplier. For more information 
on ebook purchasing please follow this link - 
**https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/ebooks/*


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