Migration, Political Art and Digitalization

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• Título: Migration, Political Art and Digitalization
• Autor: Wiederkehr González, Sara
• Publicación original: 2016
• Descripción física: PDF
• Nota general:
  • Throughout this paper, the main interest is in describing the use and practice of socialnetworking by Colombian migrants and its influence on the relation with, and the construction of a discourse about, Colombian conflict and social reality. In addressing the problematization of cyberspace and its virtuality as a space, an account is given of the singularities, political concerns, and personal expectations of two Colombian migrants living in Berlin.
    This leads to an analysis of the influence of virtuality in the construction of political and social discourses and of practices abroad. The discussion of the authenticity and “realness” of the virtual world and virtual relationships invokes the supposed opposition between virtual space as abstract, and the real world as the tangible and real one. However the notions of virtuality and reality are not necessarily opposed.
    According to Augé (1995), a place is defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity. Borrmann (2013) concludes in her study that cyberspace cannot be understood as an abstract place, meant to exist only “while we are sitting in front of the computer” (64). From this reasoning, several questions guide this paper: If the cyberspace is a tangible one, how do migrants—those people who supposedly live in between territories—relate to virtuality? How are these virtual spaces and places constructed from the singularities of Colombian migrants in Berlin? How do they relate to the actuality overseas, in their home countries?
• Notas de reproducción original: Digitalización realizada por la Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)
• Notas:
  • Colombia
  • Resumen: Virtualización; Migración; Actualización; Territorialidades; Realidad Virtual; Singularidades; Ciberespacio
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• Forma/género: texto
• Idioma: inglés
• Institución origen: Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República
• Encabezamiento de materia:
  • Ciencias Sociales