Migration in the Digital Social Mediasphere.

Peter Stockinger (1, 2)

1 PLIDAM EA 4514 - Pluralité des langues et des Identités : Didactique, Acquisition, Médiations
2 ESCOM - Equipe Sémiotique Cognitive et Nouveaux Médias

This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive theoretical framework for describing and interpreting digital videos as artefacts for producing, sharing and advocating cultural visions of the (social) other. The main objective is to explore in a non-formal manner the ‘meaning landscape’ of cultural visions (images) of the migration complex based on a small family of ‘topoï’ (‘common places’, in ancient rhetoric) which serve as doxastic frames of reference for masses of people around the world to judge (social) other and to interact with him. The principal empirical research domain, for this research work, is the You Tube platform with its thousands of videos and video channels dealing with migration.

Mots clés: Migration migration internationale; Migration studies; Identity and migration; Images of migrants; Social media; Visual semiotics; Visual studies; Visual culture; Audiovisual content; Semiotics of media; Semiotics of culture; Film semiotics

Domaines: Linguistique; Sciences de l'information et de la communication

Peter Stockinger. Migration in the Digital Social Mediasphere.. 2018. ⟨hal-01956393⟩