Graphic

Trauma and Meaning in Our Online Lives

Alexa Koenig, Andrea Lampros (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-99574-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Today, almost anyone can upload and disseminate newsworthy content online, which has radically transformed our information ecosystem. Yet this often leaves us exposed to content produced without ethical or professional guidelines. In Graphic, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros examine this dynamic and share best practices for safely navigating our digital world. Drawing on the latest social science research, original interviews, and their experiences running the world's first university-based digital investigations lab, Koenig and Lampros provide practical tips for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the harms of being online. In the wake of the global pandemic, they ask: How are people processing graphic news as they spend more time online? What practices can newsrooms, social media companies, and social justice organizations put in place to protect their employees from vicarious trauma and other harms? Timely and urgent, Graphic helps us navigate the unprecedented psychological implications of the digital age.

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). Andrea Lampros is the Communications Director at the Berkeley School of Education. She is the former Associate Director at the Human Rights Center, co-founder of the Human Rights Center Investigations Lab, and the Resiliency Manager of the lab.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	05.09.2023
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	225 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-108-99574-8 / 1108995748
ISBN-13	978-1-108-99574-0 / 9781108995740
Zustand	Neuware