CARGC Papers
Title
Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media
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Date of this Version
8-2018
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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.
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Rajabi, Samira, "Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media" (2018). CARGC Papers. 9.
https://repository.upenn.edu/cargc_papers/9
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Communication
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CARGC Paper 9