Chouliaraki, Lilie (2017) Symbolic bordering: the self-representation of migrants and refugees in digital news. Popular Communication, 15 (2). 78 - 94. ISSN 1540-5702
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Abstract
In this article, I combine theorizations of the selfie as an aesthetic and technological practice of digital self-representation with a theatrical conception of spectatorship, inspired by Adam Smith, in order to argue that the selfie has the potential to operate as a significant ethico-political spectacle in the spaces of Western publicity. I exemplify my argument by using the remediation of migrant and refugee selfies in mainstream news as a case study of ‘symbolic bordering’ – as a technology of power that couples the geo-political bordering of migrants in the outskirts of Europe with practices of ‘symbolic bordering’ that appropriate, marginalize or displace their digital testimonies in Western news media.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hppc20 |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 Taylor & Francis |
| Divisions: | Media and Communications |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1990 Broadcasting |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2017 17:41 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Apr 2024 00:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68928 |
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