From fe628e789ac3edfcd443543ce52f2df651529abf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: inga Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 07:25:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/spheres.md' added italics --- content/topic/spheres.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/spheres.md b/content/topic/spheres.md index ab721ab..2d150b7 100644 --- a/content/topic/spheres.md +++ b/content/topic/spheres.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The filmmaker Morteza Jafari addresses this question in his work and especially But to what extent do digital technologies that allow migrants to document their experiences really foster forms of empowerment? Donya Alinejad picks up on this but points to the complex ways in which online content circulates and produces audiences in the process. Not everyone with access to a digital video device and an internet connection has access to the same audiences. Referring to her own ethnographic research on Iranian migrants’ use of digital media for self-representation and expression in Los Angeles, she raises the issue of how self-representational (media) style matters. She specifically considers whether Jafari’s particular mode of inhabiting the migrant-filmmaker identity portends the film’s politics and its consequent claim to realism. -Beyond all the different actors that produce and sustain border regimes on the one hand, and migrants that challenge them on the other, there is a third group of people using digital technologies to try to support the struggles and the movements of migrants. In their contribution, Maurice Stierl, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani discuss the work of Watch the Med as a permanent fight to give the impersonal masses of migrants unique faces and voices as to subvert the European border regime by using the same technologies. Thus, they show how their practice of critical observations and counter-mapping practices of the sea are situated in a topological continuum of visibility and invisibility. Claiming and enacting the right to look at the hidden violence of the border, like *Watch the Med* does, and to listen to it, like *AlarmPhone* does, is like “turning surveillance against itself”, as Maribel Casas Cortes writes in her comment. +Beyond all the different actors that produce and sustain border regimes on the one hand, and migrants that challenge them on the other, there is a third group of people using digital technologies to try to support the struggles and the movements of migrants. In their contribution, Maurice Stierl, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani discuss the work of *Watch the Med* as a permanent fight to give the impersonal masses of migrants unique faces and voices as to subvert the European border regime by using the same technologies. Thus, they show how their practice of critical observations and counter-mapping practices of the sea are situated in a topological continuum of visibility and invisibility. Claiming and enacting the right to look at the hidden violence of the border, like *Watch the Med* does, and to listen to it, like *AlarmPhone* does, is like “turning surveillance against itself”, as Maribel Casas Cortes writes in her comment. Current political developments call for those acts of disobedience in order to ensure movement and access.