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Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: CARGC Paper 9, “Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media,” by CARGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Samira Rajabi, is based on Rajabi’s 2018 CARGC Colloquium. Using three empirical case studies from Instagram, Rajabi examines the Trump administration’s 2017 travel ban as a traumatic experience and its digital mediation. First exploring a general understanding of trauma as it relates to global media studies, she then develops the notion of “symbolic trauma” to understand how Iranian-Americans mediated the travel ban’s effects.

Source: ScholarlyCommons (University of Pennsylvania)

Author: Samira Rajabi

Language: English

Topic: Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2888452985

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Cites: 24

Cited by: 2

Related to: 10