Exile Within Borders

Seeking news and information through social networking sites: An experience of internally displaced people

“…Public debates, stories and pictures of those affected by wars and conflicts using mobile or other devices have been highlighted by different media including SNS platforms (Al-Rawi, 2019). The latter has been essential factor for IDP to stay in touch with family members, friends, and updated news in Iraq to ensure that others are safe, and ask about loved ones and the situation in other places (Alencar, 2018;Gillespie et al, 2016;Sabie et al, 2019). This could because SNSs are accessible through ICT devices and are crucial sources of news and information in their camps.…”

“…According to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the term IDP refers to people forced to flee or leave their places of residence, especially in situations of armed conflict, which are generally subject to heightened vulnerability in several areas (Mooney, 2005;Sabie et al, 2019). Moreover, IDP usually suffers significantly high rates of mortality and is at high risk of physical attack, sexual assault, and abduction (Goodman et al, 2020;Sabie et al, 2019). They are usually deprived of adequate shelter, food, and health services.…”

“…The crisis started in June 2014, after an attempt by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) to control northern, central, and western Iraq. The Iraqi military, with the help of US forces, started an operation to liberate these territories (Taha and Sijbrandij, 2021). As of 2015, more than three million internally displaced people (IDP) left their homes to escape the war zones and the persecution and barbarism of ISIS (Nicevic, 2015).…”

HCI’s Role in the Capitalocene: Lessons Learned from an HCI Master Course Across the Globe

“…In recent decades, scholarship outside of HCI has with increasing urgency attempted to grasp and conceptualize the interconnected nature of crises humanity and the planet face. They hinted to aspects such as mass extinction of non-human life and loss of biodiversity, forced migration of millions of people [72] from war, poverty and (directly or indirectly) consequences of the climate crisis, the often hostile response to migrants by for example the European Union as well increasing racism, discrimination and right-wing populist politics. Often, the idea of the Anthropocene serves as a successful starting point for such attempts.…”

“…Scholarship in HCI has also begun to address the global, complex, and interconnected nature of these challenges through a small number of publications [34,50,51]. Especially previous LIM-ITS conferences have provided a home for debates on HCI's role in climate change, (un)sustainability, capitalism, decreasing survivability or the challenges of refugees and migrants (see e.g., [18,48,53,73,74,83]). Nevertheless, HCI faces considerable difficulties in understanding and examining its role in the Capitalocene, its contribution to it, and the potential ways of departure it might offer.…”