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Book SynopsisHow to study a media object on the web that is at the same time a documentary, a reportage, and a game which combines both fiction and non-fiction elements? Nicole Braida digs into the discursive and material structures and infrastructures of serious games, text-adventures, newsgames, interactive maps, and data visualizations, in which refugees and migrants become the subject of humanitarian discourse. Although the goal is to arouse empathy towards migrants, these "interactive practices" distinguish who is vulnerable and who is not. It supports the idea of a "migratory crisis", which, the author argues, is actually the symptom of a deeper crisis of the humanitarian system itself.
Table of ContentsReconfiguring Identities within the Cityscape: Ideologies of Ukraines Decommunization Renaming; The Friends So Far, the Foes So Near? Ambiguities of Georgias Othering; The Splendid School Assembled: Studying and Practicing International Relations in Independent Ukraine; Toponymy and the Issues of Memory and Identity on the Post-soviet Tbilisi Cityscape; Mediatization of History: Introducing the Concept and Key Cases from Eastern Europe; The Rise of Precarious States: A Shadow Side of Sovereignity Loss; Sovereigntism as a Vocation and Profession: Imperial Roots, Current State, Possible Prospects; Sovereignty as a Contested Concept: The Cases of Trumpism and Putinism; Implementing International Human Rights Law: Recent Sovereigntist and Nationalist Trends; The Evolution of Sovereignty: From Nation State to Human Person; Index.
