Political Protest and Undocumented Immigrant Youth: (re-) Framing Testimonio

ISBN-13: 9780815378525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 218 str.

Stefanie Quakernack

Opis

This interdisciplinary volume applies theories from Media, Cultural, and Literary Studies to investigate how undocumented immigrant youth in the United States have claimed a public voice by publishing their video narratives on YouTube.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Digital Narratives of Undocumented Immigrant Youth Chapter 2 - The Movement, Politics, And Media Logic in YouTube Narratives Of Undocumented Youth Chapter 3 - Re-Framing Testimonio: Mediatizing Political Storytelling on YouTube Chapter 4 - Stories of the Dispossessed Chapter 5 - Visual Dispossession(S) and the Dynamics of the Performative: Moving Image Chapter 6 - Activism in Soundscape: Voice, Noises, And Music in Digital Narratives Chapter 7 - Intermedial Spaces: Written Language, Static Image, And Props Chapter 8 - Conclusions

O autorze

As of spring 2018, Stefanie Quakernack is a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at Ruhr-University Bochum. Her fields of research are immigration, education, and language. Up until 2017, Stefanie Quakernack was a lecturer and doctoral research fellow in the American Studies department at Bielefeld University, where she studied fields of U.S. immigration at the intersections of Media, Political, Literary, and Cultural Studies. Much of the research presented in this book originates in the field research that she carried out in Chicago, Illinois, in spring 2014."