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All My Friends Live in My Computer : Trauma, Tactical Media, and Meaning / Samira Rajabi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (180 p.) : 19 color imagesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781978818996
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.9/3 23
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.P75 R36 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people do when they go online after they have suffered a trauma. It offers in-depth academic analysis alongside deeply personal stories and case studies to take the reader on a journey through rapidly changing digital/social worlds. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and All My Friends Live in My Computer explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering. Through its attention to personal stories and application of media theory to new contexts, this book highlights how, when given the tools, people will make meaning in creative, novel, and healing ways.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

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All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people do when they go online after they have suffered a trauma. It offers in-depth academic analysis alongside deeply personal stories and case studies to take the reader on a journey through rapidly changing digital/social worlds. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and All My Friends Live in My Computer explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering. Through its attention to personal stories and application of media theory to new contexts, this book highlights how, when given the tools, people will make meaning in creative, novel, and healing ways.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)