30th May 2022 - Paris
REEL BORDERS - Presentation and Top Paper finalist at ICA 2022
Beating the border: Playing with migrant experiences and borderveillant spectatorship in Channel 4's Smuggled (2019)
On 30 May Lennart Soberon and Kevin Smets participated in the hybrid annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA).
The presentation was titled “Beating the border: playing with migrant experiences and borderveillant spectatorship in Channel 4’s Smuggled (2019) and was part of the panel Media, Politics and the Right to Expression. The paper was also one of the four finalists (postdoc and faculty category) for the Top Paper Award. The study will be published as part of a forthcoming book edited by Kristín Loftsdóttir, Brigitte Hipl and Sandra Ponzanesi.