Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context

ISBN-13: 9781442273719 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 298 str.

Emily J. M. Knox

Opis

With -triggered- as Google's most searched word of 2016, trigger warnings have become a prevalent yet controversial concept in American higher education and society. As the debate over the value and place of triggering material continues, Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context provides both historical context and theoretical analysis to use of trigger and content warnings in academia. This important edited volume looks at the history and theories of trigger warnings, the ethics of using them, and presents case studies from instructors and students describing instances when trigger warnings were and were not used. By exploring the issue through several scholarly lenses as well as providing examples of when trigger warnings are used effectively and when they are not, Trigger Warnings provides rigorous analysis of the controversy.