All my friends live in my computer : trauma, tactical media, and meaning /
"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 pe...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
[2021]
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2589284 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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
- About the Author.