Experiencing the Presence: Degrees of Closeness in the Digital Biographies of Migration

Nicola Dusi; Damiano Razzoli

doi:10.6092/issn.2280-9481/9750

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Nicola Dusi University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Nicola Dusi, PhD in Semiotics, is Senior Lecturer of Media Semiotics at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Department of Communication and Economics. He is the author of the books: Il cinema come traduzione (Turin: Utet, 2003); Dal cinema ai media digitali (Milan: Mimesis, 2014); Contromisure. Trasposizioni e intermedialità (Milan: Mimesis, 2015). He edited and co-edited many Media Studies books, such as: Remix-Remake. Pratiche di replicabilità (with L. Spaziante, Rome: Meltemi, 2006); Matthew Barney. Polimorfismo, multimodalità, neobarocco (with C. G. Saba, Milan: Silvana Editoriale: 2012); L’uomo che vende un occhio. Un soggetto per il film Il Boom di Vittorio De Sica (with L Di Francesco, ETS: 2017); Bellissima tra scrittura e metacinema (with L Di Francesco, Diabasis: 2017); and more recently Confini di genere. Sociosemiotica delle serie tv (Morlacchi: forthcoming), David Lynch. Cinema, televisione, pubblicità, music video (with C. Bianchi, Franco Angeli: forthcoming).
Damiano Razzoli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Damiano Razzoli holds a PhD in Semiotics from the University of Bologna. He is a postdoctoral research fellow in Organization Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where he collaborates with Opera, a unit of the research centre GIUnO specialised in the study of creativity. He is adjunct professor in Graphics and Video Communication at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Also, he teaches Intercultural Issues on Social Media in the Reggio Emilia program of Usac – University Studies Abroad Consortium (University of Nevada-Reno). He had been Visiting Scholar at Universitè Paris VIII and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research focuses on transmediality, intercultural media, and urban creativity.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/9750

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migrants, borders, digital interfaces, storytelling

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Among the many representations of migration, relevant prominence has been acquired by multimedia biographic discourses and digital enriched documentaries that reproduce the direct experience of migrants and their relationship with hosting societies. This paper aims at proposing a scale of the possible degrees of proximity or closeness in the contemporary media discourses about migration. Drawing on the semiotics of media experience, we focus on how biographic theatrical video, digital artistic based VR installation, data visualization platforms and web documentaries contribute to shape the figure of the migrant and of the border, and how they challenge the dialectic opposition between presence and distance in regard of the migration experience. In this direction, contemporary discourses on migration and migrants’ digital biographies are not only characterized by recovering the so called “capture of speech” of migrants or what idea of border and Self has been produced. Indeed, they are marked by their capacity to generate effects of presence of and to the direct experience of the migrants’ lives.

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