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Assessment task 2Reflective essay is 3,500 words 65% (due 5pm Monday October 31st)Answer one of the following questions. In your response, you should demonstrate your awareness of relevant literature, offer a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and explore how your thinking has evolved over the course of semester. Where appropriate, you should use case study examples to advance your argument.
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Mobility, Culture and
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Assessment task 1
The first assessment task comprises of a five-minute-long class presentation, as well as
a site analysis essay of 1500 words worth 35% of total marks, due the week following
your presentation. Presentation dates will be allocated during your first tutorial of the
semester.
Site Analysis: choose a site. This site will be the focal point for observation and
reflection informed by issues and themes addressed in this subject. You may choose to
undertake a mapping of the site, identify key factors concerning patterns of mobility and
social agency in relation to the site, or outline a new imaginary relationship to the site.
Your class presentation will express the nature of your site, and the connections you
have drawn between the site and key themes from one or more of the weekly readings in
which your presentation is taking place. Your analysis must connect with the
overarching topic of the week you are presenting in.
The 1,500-word essay component is to be submitted via Turnitin one week after your
presentation (for example, if you present in week 3, you will submit your essay
component prior to your tutorial in week 4).
Assessment task 2
Reflective essay is 3,500 words 65% (due 5pm Monday October 31st)
Answer one of the following questions. In your response, you should demonstrate your
awareness of relevant literature, offer a critical assessment of its strengths and
weaknesses, and explore how your thinking has evolved over the course of semester.
Where appropriate, you should use case study examples to advance your argument.
Some Questions for Reflective Essay
1.
How is the rise of digitally networked communications reformulating
experiences of belonging for people on the move in the twenty-first century?
2. How has digital technology underpinned the emergence of ‘global cities’?
3. What is the relation between the growth of personal media and increased
surveillance?
4. What role do the media play in (de)legitimizing people who move?
5. How might AI contribute to the production of new forms of people-technologyplace relations?
6. What new perspectives does the deployment and development of artificial
intelligence influence analysis of world events?
7. What can we say about people-tech relationships within the context of
mobilities?
8. How are the boundaries of home spaces being renegotiated by networked
technologies?
9. What is the relation between the desire for openness to the world and the need
to feel secure at home?
10. To what extent has mobilities research not only challenged some assumptions
and boundaries, but also started to reproduce others?
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Seminar Plan
Week 1: July 24
INTRODUCTION: MODERNITY AND MOVEMENT
This topic introduces migration and media as twin optics for understanding the
emergence of contemporary society as a social form based on mobility. The modern
period is commonly associated with change. Ideas of progress, transformation and
discovery are often expressed through the metaphors of movement. Similarly, the
experience of travel and migration, which is a physical act of movement, also became a
more widespread phenomenon during modernity. Migration has been a dominant force
in the reshaping of modern societies, but its meaning has often oscillated between the
poles of threat and opportunity. The advent of cheaper and faster modes for the
transportation of people and commodities has been paralleled by the development of new
means of circulating images and information. The transition from traditional media to
digital networks means that mobility has gained even greater force in contemporary
society. This introductory session will offer an overview on theories of mobility and
communication.
Key issues
•
•
What is the significance of mobility as a social concept?
How has the relation between media and the nation state changed in recent years?
Essential reading
1.1 Hannam, K. M. Sheller and J. Urry (2006) ‘Editorial: Mobilities, Immobilities and
Moorings’ Mobilities 1(1) pp.1-22
1.2 Preibisch, K., Dodd, W., & Su, Y. (2016). Pursuing the capabilities approach within
the migration–development nexus. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42(13),
2111-2127.
Further reading
Bærenholdt, J. O. (2013) ‘Governmobility: The Powers of Mobility’ in Mobilities Vol
8(1) pp. 20-34
Urry, J. (2002) ‘Mobility and proximity’, Available online at
http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/projects/mobilenetwork/downloads/urry1stpaper.doc.
On the relation between media and movement
Castles, S. and Miller. M. (2003) The Age of Migration, New York, Palgrave.
Dragan, K. (2006) Mobility of Imagination, Central European University Press. Massey,
D.S. and Taylor, J.E. (2004) International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a
Global Market, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Massey, D.S. et al (1998) Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at
the End of the Millennium, Oxford, Clarendon University Press.
Week 2: July 31
GLOBAL PEOPLE MOVEMENTS AND THE CONTEMPORARY NATION
This topic considers how discourses on the different types of migrations within states
and between them. We will also discuss refugee crisis in the world and the management
of migration via media and technology using historical and contemporary approaches.
An alternative model based on complexity theory will then be used to address the global
flows and local affiliations of contemporary society.
Key issues
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•
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In what ways are perceptions of national integrity linked to border control?
How do global migration patterns present new challenges for nation states?
Who decides who is a good migrant or a bad migrant?
Essential reading
2.1 Cohen, J. H & I. Sirkeci (2011) ‘Contemporary Movers: International Migration’
Cultures of Migration University of Texas Press pp.68-86 2.3
2.2 Seuferling, P. and K. Leurs (2021) ‘Histories of humanitarian technophilia: how
imaginaries of media technologies have shaped migration infrastructures’. In Mobilities
Vol. 16 (5) pp. 670-687
2.3 UNHCR (2022). Global trends. Forced displacement in 2022. Available at
https://www.unhcr.org/global-trends-report-2022
Further reading
Agier, M. (2016 [2013]) Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan
Condition. Translated by D. Fernbach. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
Cheah, P. (2003) Spectral Nationalism. New York, Columbia University Press.
Kleinschmidt, H. (2006) ‘Migration and the Making of Transnational Social Spaces’,
Australian Centre seminar paper, University of Melbourne, 11 June.
Clarendon Press. Kleinschmidt, H. (2003) People on the Move, Westport, CT, Praeger.
Hammar, T. (2001) ‘Politics of Immigration Control and Politicisation of International
Migration’, in M. Saddique (ed.) International Migration into the Twenty First
Century, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Press. Massey, D. and Taylor, J.E. (eds.)
International Migration, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Week 3: August 7
GLOBAL MEDIA, MIGRATION, AND TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE
This topic addresses the new conditions of public culture in the global era. Beginning
from the historic association between media and the public sphere, we examine the
growing need to reformulate the concept in the present. Global networks of
communication are creating the potential for new scales and patterns of social
organization. They are also altering the conditions of public culture in contemporary
cities.
This week we consider benefits and limitations of the role of digital media in the
formation of public sphere(s).
Key issues
• How have media platforms affected the movement from national to transnational
public sphere?
• How can we conceptualise the changing nature of public sphere on the Internet?
Essential reading
3.1 Hallin, D. C. (2020) ‘Media, the Public Sphere, and the Globalization of Social
Problems’. In E. Neveu & M. Surdez (eds.) Globalizing Issues Palgrave MacMillan pp.
321- 335 4.2
3.2 Downey, J. (2014) ‘Flux and the public sphere’. In Media, Culture & Society Vol.
36(3) SAGE pp.367-379
3.3 Papacharissi, Z. (2002) ‘The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere’, New
Media and Society, 4(1), 9–27.
Further reading
Cammaerts, B. and L. Van Audenhove (2005) ‘Online Political Debate, Unbounded
Citizenship, and the Problematic Nature of a Transnational Public Sphere Political
Communication 22 pp.179-196 Routledge
Downey, J. and Fenton, N. (2003). New Media, Counter Publicity and the Public
Sphere’, New Media and Society 5(2): 185–202.
Gitlin, T. (1998) ‘Public Sphere or Public Sphericules?, in T. Liebes and J. Curran (eds)
Media Ritual and Identity, London, Routledge.
Poell, T. (2009) ‘Conceptualizing forums and blogs as public sphere’, in M. van den
Boomen, S. Lammes, A. Lehmann, J. Raessens & M. T. Schäfer (eds.) Digital Material:
Tracing New Media in Everyday Life and Technology Amsterdam University Press pp.
239-252
Bailey, O., Georgiou, M. and Harindranath, R. (eds.) (2007) Transnational lives and the
media : re-imagining diaspora, Basingstoke [England]; New York : Palgrave Macmillan..
Week 4: August 14
TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND MOBILITY – PART 1
In this week, we will talk about the interplay between technologies, media, and work and how
this interaction influences our thinking about people and their relationships with geographical
borders. We will explore the overt and covert influence of socioeconomic status, media, and
state on discussions surrounding labors and refugees across international borders.
Key issues
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•
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How technology shapes the experience of a mobile worker and refugees?
How do workers perceive themselves within the global media and tech landscapes?
How is the distinction between good and bad migrants created by the media?
Essential reading
4.1 Ehn, K., Jorge, A., & Marques-Pita, M. (2022). Digital nomads and the COVID-19
pandemic: Narratives about relocation in a time of lockdowns and reduced mobility. Social
Media+
4.2 Nortio, E., Miska, M., Renvik, T. A. & Jasinskaja-Lahti, I. (2021). The nightmare of
multiculturalism’: Interpreting and deploying anti-immigration rhetoric in social media’. New
Media & Society, 23(3) pp. 438-456
4.3 Fish, A., & Srinivasan, R. (2012). Digital labor is the new killer app. New Media &
Society, 14(1), 137-152.
4.4 Lawlor, A., & Tolley, E. (2017). Deciding who’s legitimate: News media framing of
immigrants and refugees. International Journal of Communication, 11, 25.
Further reading
Hardt, M. & Negri, A. (2004), ‘Inventing Network Struggles’, in Multitude: War and
Democracy in the Age of Empire, New York, Penguin Press: 79–92.
Kahn, R. & Kellner, D. (2004) ‘New media and internet activism: from the “Battle of Seattle”
to blogging’, New Media and Society, 6(1), 87-95.
Week 5: August 21
TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA AND MOBILITY – PART 2
We will continue our discussion from the previous week and pivot to how people use
technologies to make sense of their mobilities. We will also discuss how these technological
experiences give state power and opportunity to surveil people on the move.
Key issues
• How do people use technology to make sense of their migrant experience?
• Which factors are involved in variations of those experiences?
Essential Reading
5.1 Andrade, A. D., & Doolin, B. (2016). Information and communication technology and the
social inclusion of refugees. Mis Quarterly, 40(2), 405-416.
5.2 Latonero, M., & Kift, P. (2018). On digital passages and borders: Refugees and the new
infrastructure for movement and control. Social Media+ Society, 4(1), 2056305118764432
Further Reading
Aal, K., Weibert, A., Talhouk, R., Vlachokyriakos, V., Fisher, K., & Wulf, V. (2018,
January). Refugees & technology: determining the role of HCI research. In Proceedings of
the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (pp. 362-364).
Week 6: August 28
AI, CULTURE, AND PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
Extending our discussion into AI as a specific type of technology, we will explore two main
themes surrounding AI. In the first section, we will look into AI’s impact on culture. This
will help us understand common narratives and perceptions surrounding this specific
technology. We will then move to how these perceptions and ideas contemporary impact
migration management and protocols and the potential consequences associated with these
transformations.
Key issues
• What is our cultural and perceptual understanding of AI?
• How will AI transform people’s ability to move?
Essential reading:
6.1 Amershi, B. (2020). Culture, the process of knowledge, perception of the world and
emergence of AI. AI & SOCIETY, 35(2), 417-430.
6.2 Beduschi, A. (2021). International migration management in the age of artificial
intelligence. Migration Studies, 9(3), 576-596.
6.3 Molnar, P. (2019). Technology on the margins: AI and global migration management
from a human rights perspective. Cambridge International Law Journal, 8(2), 305-330.
Further reading
Bircan, T., & Korkmaz, E. E. (2021). Big data for whose sake? Governing migration through
artificial intelligence. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8(1), 1-5.
Nalbandian, L. (2022). An eye for an ‘I:’a critical assessment of artificial intelligence tools in
migration and asylum management. Comparative Migration Studies, 10(1), 1-23.
Regina, P., & De Capitani, E. (2022). Digital innovation and migrants’ integration: notes on
EU institutional and legal perspectives and criticalities. Social Sciences, 11(4), 144.
Olier, J. S., & Spadavecchia, C. (2022). Stereotypes, disproportions, and power asymmetries
in the visual portrayal of migrants in ten countries: an interdisciplinary AI-based
approach. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1-16.
Heimgärtner, R. (2013). Reflections on a model of culturally influenced human–computer
interaction to cover cultural contexts in HCI design. International Journal of HumanComputer Interaction, 29(4), 205-219.
Week 7: September 4
THE HOME IN MOBILE TIMES
In this topic we examine the reconstruction of ‘home’ as both a physical location and
existential space in the context of ubiquitous media. ‘Home’ can be considered as both a
concept of individual domesticity and, in a wider context, an imagined community. How do
we define and negotiate spaces of communal ‘belonging’ in the global present? What is
happening to the ‘privacy’ of the home in an age of ‘reality TV’ and real-time media? What
are the consequences of heightened media exposure for personal identity?
Key issues
• What is the relation between the desire for openness to the world and the need to feel
secure at home?
• How do media transform the spatiality of the home?
Essential reading
7.1 Ahmed, S. (2000) “Home and away: Narratives of migration and estrangement”, pp. 7794 in S. Ahmed, Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post Coloniality. Abingdon, Oxon:
Routledge. (Read from ‘Home’ heading on page 86 to 94)
7.2 Maalsen, S. & Dowling, R. (2020). Covid-19 and the accelerating smart home. Big Data
& Society, 7(2), 1-5.
Further Reading
Morley, D. (2000) ‘Ideas of Home’ Home Territories: Media, mobility and identity. London:
Routledge.
Borm, B. (2017) ‘Welcome Home: An Ethnography on the Experiences of Airbnb Hosts in
Commodifying Their Homes’ in U. U. Frömming, S. Köhn, S. Fox & M. Terry (eds.)
Digital Environments Transcript Verlag
Drotner, K. (2005) ‘Media on the Move: personalized media and the transformation of
publicness’ Journal of Media Practice 6(1) pp.53-64
Sloop, J. and J. Gunn (2012) ‘Publicized privacy: Social networking and the compulsive
search for limits’ J. Packer & Crofts Wiley (eds.) Communication Matters: Materialist
Approaches to Media, Mobility and Networks Routledge Rethinking identity; the
contradictions of the individual.
Marwick, A. E., boyd, d (2018) ‘Understanding Privacy at the Margins’, International Journal
of Communication, 12: 1157–1165.
Week 8: September 11
BELONGING IN DIGITAL DIASPORA
This week we look at the formation of diasporic communities in order to question the
structures and flows through which they are constituted. This will critique traditional notions
of ethnic enclaves and question the integrative capacities of the nation state. We will pay
close attention to the influence of new communication and transportation technologies. We
consider the reconfiguration of relationships through ICTs, with particular focus on their role
in mobility and ideas of belonging for refugees, transnational families and diasporic
communities.
Key issues
• How are concepts of ‘belonging’ being renegotiated in contemporary society through
technology?
• What is the relationship between place, persons and emotions?
Essential reading
8.1 Wilding, R. and S. Gifford (2018) “Creating Media, Creating Belonging: Young People
from Refugee Backgrounds and the Homelands Project”, pp. 159-176 in D. Nolan, K.
Farquharson and T. Marjoribanks (eds.) Australian Media and the Politics of Belonging.
London: Anthem Press.
8.2 Wilding, R., & Winarnita, M. (2022). Affect, creativity and migrant belonging. Communication,
Culture and Critique, 15(2), 283-289.
8.3 Madianou, M. (2016) ‘Ambient Co-Presence: Transnational Family Practices in
Polymedia Environments’ Global Networks 16(2): 183-201.
Further reading
Ahmed, S. et al (eds.) (2003) Uprootings and Regroundings: Questions of Home and
Migration, Oxford, Berg. Ang, I. et al (ed.) (2000) Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian
Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture, Sydney, Pluto Press.
Ang, I. (2001) On Not Speaking Chinese: Living Between Asia and the West, London,
Routledge. Bailey, O.G., Georgiou, M. and Harindranath, R. (eds.) (2007)
Transnational Lives and the Media: Re-imagining Diaspora, Basingstoke; New York,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
J. and S. Macfarlane (2009) ‘Debating the capacity of information and communication
technology to promote inclusion’, pp. 95-104 in A. Taket, B. R. Crisp, A. Nevill, G.
Lamaro, M. Graham, and S. Barter-Godfrey (eds.) Theorising Social Exclusion.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. Marlowe,
J. M., Bartley, A. and Collins, F. (2017) ‘Digital belongings: The intersections of social
cohesion, connectivity and digital media’, Ethnicities, 17: 85–102.
Wilding (2006) ‘Virtual’ intimacies? Families communicating across transnational contexts’,
Global Networks, 6(2): 125-142. 33
Week 9: September 18
MOBILITY, VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES, AND WORLD BUILDING
In this week, we will discuss virtual communities, cosmopolitanism and its connections to
mobility. We will do an in-class exercise which will use the world building technique from
fantasy and science fiction studies to think and create worlds which can address issues
underlying the theme of mobility we have discussed throughout the semester.
Key issues:
• How do virtual communities aid or devours the mobile experience of mobility?
• How can we create better worlds where mobility is easier, faster, and kinder to all
people?
Essential reading:
9.1 Marino, S. (2015). Making space, making place: Digital togetherness and the redefinition
of migrant identities online. Social Media+ Society, 1(2), 2056305115622479.
9.2 Boczkowski, P. J. (1999). Mutual shaping of users and technologies in a national virtual
community. Journal of Communication, 49(2), 86-108.
9.3 Stornaiuolo, A., & Nichols, T. P. (2019). Cosmopolitanism and education. In Oxford
research encyclopedia of education.
Week 10: October 02
METHODOLOGIES OF MOBILITY
Increasingly, academics have turned towards methodologies that accommodate the
complexity of contemporary mobilities. This approach problematizes binary oppositional
models, presenting an argument for the academic methods and personal approaches that
invoke new concepts around relation, thinking and feeling. Here we invoke complexity
theory, affect and relationality to consider how the mobile methods allow us to trace a world
in flux.
Key issues
• What are the affordances of mobile methods for researchers?
• How do we account for complexity within social analysis?
• What is the relationship between mobility (or flux) and immobility (or stasis)?
Essential reading
10.1 Tyfield, D. and A. Blok (2016) ‘Doing methodological cosmopolitanism in a mobile
world’ Mobilities Vol. 11 (4) pp. 629-641
10.2 Büscher, M., J. Urry & K. Witchger (2011) ‘Introduction: Mobile Methods’ pp.1-19 in
Büscher, M., J. Urry & K. Witchger (eds.) Mobile Methods London and New York,
Routledge
10.3 Holton, M. (2019) ‘Walking with technology: understanding mobility technology
assemblages’. In Mobilities Vol 14 (4) pp. 435-451
10.4 D’Andrea A, Ciolfi L and Gray B (eds) (2011) Methodological challenges and
innovations in mobilities research. Mobilities 6(2): 149–160.
10.5 Terroso-Saenz, F., Muñoz, A., Arcas, F., Curado, M. (2022) ‘Can Twitter be a Reliable
Proxy to Characterize Nation-wide Human Mobility? A Case Study of Spain’, Social Science
Computer Review, 0(0): 1-19. Urry J (2000) Mobile sociology. The British Journal of
Sociology 51(1): 185–203.
Further reading
Adey P (2010) Aerial Life: Spaces, Mobilities, Affects. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
Beck, U. (2016) ‘Varieties of Second Modernity and the Cosmopolitan Vision’. In Theory,
Culture & Society Vol. 33(7-8) pp. 257-270 Bryant, L.R. (2008) ‘Difference and
Givenness’ Northwestern University Press: Evanston, Illinois
Elliott A and Urry J (2010) Mobile Lives. London: Routledge.
Urry, J. (2003) ‘Global Complexities’ Global Complexity Cambridge: Polity Press pp.120140
Week 11: October 09
TOWARDS A NEW UNIVERSALISM
In this week we examine the transformations of political action that have been the result of
the new ideas on diasporic communities, the social practices that produce transnational
networks and the forms of cosmopolitan agency. We will ask how this affects questions of
representation within existing political institutions, the boundaries by which membership is
defined, the relationship between human rights and national rights. Finally, we consider the
rhetoric around digital universalism and the relationship between data and power.
Key issues
• Is the concept of human rights broad enough to embrace the plight of refugees and
strangers?
• Is it possible to have a concept of ethics without borders?
• Is data a ‘universalising’ force?
Essential reading
11.1 Wallerstein, I. (1997) ‘The National and the Universal: Can There be Such a Thing as
World Culture?’ In A. D. King (ed.) Culture, Globalization and the World-System University
of Minnesota Press pp. 91-105
11.2 Milan, S. & E. Treré (2019) ‘Big Data from the South(s): Beyond Data Universalism’.
In Television & New Media Vol. 20(4) 319-335
Further reading
Balibar, E. (2002) ‘The Three Concepts of Politics, Emancipation, Transformation, Civility’,
Politics and the Other Scene, London, Verso: 1–39.
Chan, A.S. (2013) ‘Digital Interrupt: Hacking Universalism at the Network’s Edge’. In
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Cambridge Mass/ London: MIT Press
Pendenza, M. (2017) ‘Societal cosmopolitanism: the drift from universalism towards
particularism’. In Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory Vol. 18(1) pp. 3-17
Tourraine, A. (2000) Can We Live Together? Cambridge, Polity Press.
Week 12: October 16
REFLECTION
This week we will reflect on the different themes and trajectories we have traced during the
semester, as well as spend time discussing the final essay. There are no prescribed readings
for this week.
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