Trauma and digital media
Introduction to crosscurrents special section
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268434 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amit Pinchevski (0000-0001-7839-1732, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel), Michael Richardson (0000-0002-2750-2487, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 178-180 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01634437221122244 |
| OpenAlex | W4295007415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 5 |
Associations between trauma and media theory are longstanding, going back at least to Walter Benjamin’s observations on technology and modernity, which were themselves informed by Freud’s 1920 speculations on war trauma following WWI. A century later, and in the wake of numerous conflicts, catastrophes, and far-reaching technological transformations—and of course the COVID pandemic—it is time to reconsider the relation between trauma and media, digital platforms in particular. While some significant scholarship has noted the intersections of modern media technologies such as photography, film, radio, television, and recently digital and algorithmic media, with the conception and experience of trauma, a more systematic theoretical consideration of the relation between media and trauma remains to be developed. And with the intensifying reliance on new and old media in these pandemic times the question of these relations is increasingly urgent. Moving beyond conceptions of media as representing or inducing trauma, this special section of Crosscurrents explores how (digital) media and trauma shape one another
Digital media · Epistemology · Media studies · Modernity · Political science · Relation (database · Scholarship · Section (typography · Sociology · Special section · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Digital Media and Philosophy · Engineering · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |