In this week's episode, guest Eszter Zimanyi discusses her article \"Digital Transience: Emplacement and Authorship in Refugee Selfies\" which analyzes \"refugee selfies\" collected from Instagram's Explore Places map feature as an alternative viewpoint on the so-called 2015 European refugee crisis. Zimanyi argues that that refugee selfies are best conceived as a form of digital transience that provide the refugee with a sense of emplacement in a particular location along with an archive of their movement across locations. At the same time, these digital posts also prompt a disruptive affective charge that forces other viewers of the image to contend with the precarity of the refugee’s existence in any location.
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