Sinha Fellow 2024-25 Congratulations to Maggie Meyer, MA in Media Studies student at The New School, who has been awarded the 2024-25 Bishwanath and Sandhya Sinha Memorial Fellowship! We look forward to the work she will be doing during her fellowship year. Maggie Meyer is a creative and scholar who is passionate about the intersection …
By Chase Louden “The elusiveness of ‘Home’ has characterized Black existence in the United States” —Jacqueline Patterson, “Displaced on Repeat: Black Americans and Climate Forced Migration,” July 12, 2023 Climate Migration within the United States “That storm took the stairs!” Patrina Myers exclaimed, realizing Hurricane Nicole had swept away the staircase of a beachside pavilion …
Applications are open to continuing M.A. students in Media Studies for this research fellowship in the amount of $5,100 for the academic year 2024-25. Application Due Date: July 1, 2024 The annual Bishwanath and Sandhya Sinha Memorial Endowed Fellowship at the School of Media Studies in The New School is a year-long funded research assistantship in …
New Introductory Essays for Concepts This Spring, we launched a series of 17 short essays by Prof Sumita S. Chakravarty and Sinha Memorial Research Fellow Johann Yamin, each introducing a keyword on our new “Concepts” page on the Migration Mapping project. This is part of the Migration Mapping project’s broader aims to arrive at key …
With 2023 coming to a close, we reflect on international developments in media and migration, also taking stock of the continued growth of the Media+Migration Lab (M2Lab) and its foundational project, Migration Mapping. Header image: Still from Amy Mullenex’s M2Lab multimedia project, Tracing Crisis in Ukraine: On War, Digital Media, and Forced Migration in Southeastern …
New look for Migration Mapping Migration Mapping was officially launched in 2016, though if one were to explore its archived versions on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, one would find multiple iterations of the project emerging since 2015, transforming over time with slight variations to its appearance through the work of volunteers, student researchers, and …
The Night Fisherman (2020) by Far Few Giants is a narrative-driven adventure game. As a short, free game that may be played through in about 10 minutes, it is a micro-fiction that is experienced like a filmic vignette. In an atmospheric setting that is awash in a violet color palette, the player assumes the role …
Described as a “dystopian document thriller,” Papers, Please is a 2013 video game designed by Lucas Pope and published by 3090 across several platforms. Playing as an immigration inspector, the game unfolds through increasingly bureaucratic duties of processing paperwork at the border of fictional Artstotzka. Sorting through passports, immigration documents, and personal information, the player …
