Samira Rajabi

All My Friends Live in My Computer

Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning

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Produktbeschreibung

All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from unique segments of society. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and this book explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 174
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781978818965
• ISBN-10: 1978818963
• Artikelnr.: 60156088

Autorenporträt

SAMIRA RAJABI is the Director of Technology Influenced Pedagogy at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published in the Canadian Journal of Disability, as well as in the book Social Media in Iran. She is a contributor to Cure Magazine since 2015 and an active member of patient support communities online.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Part I Trauma and Media Theory
1 Introduction: Seeing through Suffering: Digital Mediation and the
Suffering Subject
2 There Are Many Ways to Suffer
3 Putting It Out There: Tactics of Meaning Making in Digital Media
Part II Meaning Making Online
4 The Battle We Didn't Choose: Angelo Merendino and Mediations of Grief,
Disease, and the Trauma of Bearing Witness
5 Nothing Can Stop You: CrossFit, Trauma, and the Digital Remaking of
Ability
6 Bullied by the Nation: The Symbolic Trauma of Iranians Living in the
United States
7 Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index