Alexa Koenig, Andrea Lampros

Graphic

Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"What does research tell us about how to grapple with the onslaught of graphic and distressing imagery that floods our newsfeeds daily? This book is designed for professionals and everyday people, legislators and social media policymakers who are making sense of trauma and meaning in our online lives"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781316518212
• ISBN-10: 1316518213
• Artikelnr.: 67221372

Autorenporträt

Alexa Koenig is co-Faculty Director of UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center and an Adjunct Professor at UC Berkeley School of Law. She co-founded the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab and is an author of Hiding in Plain Sight (2016) and Digital Witness (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Taking in Trauma from Our Newsfeed
1. A Short Summary of a Long History of Graphic Witnessing
2. Images and the Brain
3. Images and Identity
4. Agency and Control
5. Community as a Protective Force
6. Meaning in our Online Lives
7. Policy and Practice: What Next? Conclusion: Lessons on Resilience from San Miguel.