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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajabi, Samira, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--United States.

Digital media.

Psychic trauma and mass media--United States.

Psychic trauma and mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (180 p.) : 19 color images

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)

ISBN:

1-9788-1899-8

OCLC:

1244741956