The Hospitality of Cyberspace
Mobilizing Asylum Seeker Testimony Online
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5084711 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gillian Whitlock (0000-0002-6728-0305, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-266 |
| Publication date | 2015-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2015.0025 |
| OpenAlex | W2151380388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article focuses on maritime voyages filmed and narrated by asylum seekers, where they become "produsers" of their own testimonial narratives that are then disseminated through both conventional and new media. Social media offers new venues and opportunities for the dissemination of testimony generated by the asylum seekers, from within the boats, trucks, and planes that transport them. Asylum seekers are not citizens seeking democracy in the public spaces of their own homelands; on the contrary, they are stigmatized as the barbarians at our gates, and as a threat to the security of the nation. In their hands, however, smartphones and social media enable new forms of testimonial narrative, from within spaces of detention. Can we speak of the hospitality of cyberspace on behalf of the dispossessed
Advertising · Art · Business · Criminology · Cyberspace · Hospitality · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Patrolling · Political science · Refugee · Social media · Sociology · Testimonial · The Internet · Tourism · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues
| Citations per year | 0.9 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |