Book Presentation Myria Georgiou - The Digital Border, Utrecht University, June 23, 2022

Описание: the Digital Border
by Lilie Chouliaraki & Myria Georgiou
New York University Press, June 2022

Description:
This book pursues the following questions How do digital technologies shape the experiences and meanings of migration? 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?

Bio Myria Georgiou
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.

In the video, we see a book presentation by Professor Georgiou, as well as two responses:

Respondent 1 Huub Dijstelbloem
Huub Dijstelbloem is Professor of Philosophy of Science, Technology and Politics and Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the University of Amsterdam.

Respondent 2 Sandra Ponzanesi
Chair of Media, Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme(UU).