Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, sensory, visual, discursive, and imaginary, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of digital material circulating online in a way that creates a digital dimension of the Mexico-U.S. border.
In the context of a world where digital media has helped to shape geopolitical borders and impacted human mobility in positive and negative ways, the book explores new modes of expression in which identification, memory, representation, persuasion, and meaning-making are created, experienced, and/or circulated through digital technologies. An interdisciplinary team of scholars looks at how quick communications bring closer transnational families and how online resources can be helpful for migrants, but also at how digital media can serve to control and reinforce borders via digital technology used to create a system of political control that reinforces stereotypes. The book deconstructs digital artifacts such as the digital press, social media, digital archives, web platforms, technological and artistic creations, visual arts, video games, and artificial intelligence to help us understand the anti-immigrant and dehumanizing discourse of control, as well as the ways migrants create vernacular narratives as digital activism to break the stereotypes that afflict them.
This timely and insightful volume will interest scholars and students of digital media, communication studies, journalism, migration, and politics.
| ISBN: | 9781032856568 |
| Publication date: | 21st May 2026 |
| Author: | Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 240 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture |
| Genres: |
Media studies Popular culture Ethnic groups and multicultural studies Migration, immigration and emigration Ethnic studies Public opinion and polls Political campaigning and advertising Sociology Anthropology Political structure and processes Communication studies Regional / International studies The Arts Law |
Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, sensory, visual, discursive, and imaginary, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of digital material circulating online in a way that creates a digital dimension of the Mexico-U.S. border.
In the context of a world where digital media has helped to shape geopolitical borders and impacted human mobility in positive and negative ways, the book explores new modes of expression in which identification, memory, representation, persuasion, and meaning-making are created, experienced, and/or circulated through digital technologies. An interdisciplinary team of scholars looks at how quick communications bring closer transnational families and how online resources can be helpful for migrants, but also at how digital media can serve to control and reinforce borders via digital technology used to create a system of political control that reinforces stereotypes. The book deconstructs digital artifacts such as the digital press, social media, digital archives, web platforms, technological and artistic creations, visual arts, video games, and artificial intelligence to help us understand the anti-immigrant and dehumanizing discourse of control, as well as the ways migrants create vernacular narratives as digital activism to break the stereotypes that afflict them.
This timely and insightful volume will interest scholars and students of digital media, communication studies, journalism, migration, and politics.
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border features in the following genres: Media studies, Popular culture, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Migration, immigration and emigration, Ethnic studies, Public opinion and polls, Political campaigning and advertising, Sociology, Anthropology, Political structure and processes, Communication studies, Regional / International studies, The Arts, Law
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border is available in Paperback, Hardback
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border was written by Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border has 240 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture series
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