الاكاديمية للدراسات الاجتماعية و الانسانية
Volume 15, Numéro 2, Pages 505-513
2023-06-30
Migration And Digital Storytelling: Indexical Narratives Of Concealment And Confession
Authors : Aaid Salah Eddine .
Abstract
Digital stories of clandestine migration and asylum-seeking have exemplified the moments of the twenty-first century. The continuous waves of mass migration and mobility towards the Western metropoles and the rise of social media platforms as a detrimental virtual space are considered global markers of interconnections that forged a special interface between the (trans)formation of migratory experience and digital dwelling via networks. This study explores how YouTube vlogs provide digital storytelling techniques that inform a digital community. This virtual medium has sparked the interest of numerous illegal Algerian migrants to narrate the dangerous crossings in the Mediterranean Sea and via the Balkan countries to find a safe haven in Europe. In this regard, YouTube vlogs became a virtual potential for asylum as illegal migrant subjects strive to find a room of their own in the host nations. Stances of concealment and confession are highly expressed using idioms in the Algerian vernacular.
Keywords
Digital Storytelling ; YouTube Vlogs ; Algerian Migrants ; Stances of Concealment and Confession
Les articles similaires
Bakri Adil
.
Amrouche Abderrahmane
.
Abbas Mourad
.
Bouchakour Lallouani
.
pages 57-60.
Naamaoui Abdellah
.
pages 243-270.
Serghini Ahmed
.
pages 136-156.
