A while back, I posted our Call for Papers for a special issue we guest edited for the International Journal of Cultural Studies. The issue was on migration, digital media, and the role of emotion, and it came out last year. I’ve been delayed in getting around to posting about it, but I’m really pleased with the collection of papers we’ve been able to bring together. I’ll post the abstract of the introduction to the edition, which I wrote together with my co-editor, Prof. Sandra Ponzanesi, here:
This collection brings together key themes that integrate the scholarship on migration, digital media, and emotion. Drawing from a variety of conceptual, theoretical, and methodological traditions that cross-cut academic disciplines, the articles in this issue explore the emotional facets of digitally mediated migrant socialities in a variety of socio-cultural and geographic locales. These examinations raise important questions about how digital media ubiquity shapes global migration experiences and multicultural media publics at various scales. How are relations of intimacy and care at a distance articulated and experienced through social media? What does it mean to imagine home as a digitally mediated experience? In what unexpected ways are platforms reshaping migrant subjectivities? In this introductory article we address these and other questions, outlining how we believe the study of emotion can help us think more comprehensively about the digital mediation of migrants’ social lives in the current media age.
Check out the full article, here
Donya Alinejad 