1st Edition

Digital Culture and the U.S.-Mexico Border Rhetorics on Human Mobility

Edited By Rubria Rocha de Luna, Maricruz Castro Ricalde Copyright 2025
252 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 27 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Conceptualizing how digital artifacts can function as a frontier mediated by technology in the geographical, physical, sensory, visual, discursive, and imaginary, this volume offers an interdisciplinary analysis of digital material circulating online in a way that creates a digital dimension of the Mexico-U.S. border. In the context of a world where digital media has helped to shape... Read more

Introduction 

Rubria Rocha de Luna 

Section 1: Memory, Identity, and Representation of Human Mobility through Social Media and Digital Archives  

1. Digital Archives and Women’s Identity: Transborder Rhetorical Practices in Late 19th and Early 20th Century Periodicals 

Donna Marie Kabalen Vanek

2. The Migrant Woman in the Language of the Mexican Digital Press  

Elizabeth Tiscareño-García

Oscar Mario Miranda-Villanueva

3. Embracing the ‘American Dream’ Social Media Imaginary vs. the Daily American Nightmare for Immigrant Women 

Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto

Iris Rubi Monroy-Velasco

4. Crossing the Darien with TikTok: Self-representation and Digital Solidarities in Forced Migrants from Venezuela in Transit to the U.S. 

Alethia Fernández de la Reguera Ahedo

Alejandro Martin del Campo

Juan Carlos Narváez Gutiérrez

5. Music, Migration, and Mexicanness in the Digital World  

Alfonso Meave Avila

Laura F. Morales

Section 2: Art and Imaginaries: Border Experiences Mediated by Technology  

6. The Rhetoric of Empathy: Digital Storytelling Co-creators Seeking to Humanize Migration and Deportation 

Maricruz Castro Ricalde

Rubria Rocha de Luna

7. Towards a Hyper-Aesthetics of Migration: Transnational Identities, Hyperborders, and Hypermediacy in the Visual Narratives of Evan Apodaca and Alex Rivera 

Alejandro Ramírez-Méndez

8. Reimagining the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands through Contemporary Ecocritical Art 

Emily Celeste Vázquez Enríquez

9. Rearticulating Ex-votos within Digital Spaces 

Lorella Di Gregorio

10. Visual Imaginaries from Artificial Intelligence on the United States-Mexico Border.  

Jacob Bañuelos Capistrán

Section 3: Digital Constraints: Representations and Modes of Border Political Control  

11. Sleep Dealer (Alex Rivera, 2008): Reconfiguration of Limits/Borders in a Cyborg/Cybernetic Culture 

Richard K. Curry

12. “Mi entrevista en Juárez”: The Digital Rhetorics of YouTube Immigration Videos 

Sonia López-López

Spencer W. Martin

13. Higher Education for Dreamers Returning to Mexico: Vagueness of Official Communications from a User Experience Perspective   

Juan Antonio Valdivia Vázquez

Daniel A. Arenas Aguiñaga

14. Engaging Action: Procedural Rhetoric and Agentive Arguments in Border Crossing Videogames 

Justin Cosner

15. Migration Policy in Mexico and Situated Knowledge: The Denial of Justice as a Form of Discrimination 

Salvador Leetoy

Carlos Cerda-Dueñas

 

Biography

Rubria Rocha de Luna is Postdoctoral Researcher in the Digital Humanities Research Group, School of Humanities and Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey, México.

Maricruz Castro Ricalde is Digital Humanities Co-leader in the School of Humanities and Education at Tecnologico de Monterrey, México.