A rare book that steps back from the achievement of thunderous protest to properly appreciate mediated solidarities as the fragile outcome of injury, cooperation, and joy in the everyday.
Do digital media feed into our narcissism or can help us forge solidarities with vulnerable others? At a time of mass mobilities and great human need, this question highlights one of the biggest political and ethical challenges of our times. Drawing on extensive research on the digital mediation of migration, Kaarina Nikunen offers a compelling, original and sophisticated response to this urgent question, inviting us to rethink how social media may be shaping our emotional and moral commitments to the world beyond ourselves.
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