Technologies of trauma : cultural formations over time

Media technologies do not simply record or represent trauma but transform trauma into a cultural form that is multifariously commodified in different contexts. In this crucial new text, Ibrahim introduces us to the notion of 'technologies of trauma', in deconstructing the idea of trauma as...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Ibrahim, Yasmin (Reader in international business and communications) (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781802621372
DOI10.1108/9781802621358
Physical Description1 online resource (216 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction mediated trauma and modernity
  • Chapter 2. Technologies of trauma: Uncoupling the incestuous relationship between technology and trauma
  • Chapter 3. Crossing the human limits: The technologies of wounding
  • Chapter 4. Orientalism of suffering: Trauma and the production of alterity
  • Chapter 5. The social psychology of hate online: From cyberbullying to gaming
  • Chapter 6. Algorithmic logic of black death: Re-reading black virtuality online
  • Chapter 7. Charred and untowering: Grenfell and the 'blackened'.