Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the 2008 financial crisis. In Consuming Catastrophe, Timothy Recuber presents a unique and provocative look at how these four very different disasters took a similar path through public consciousness. He explores the myriad ways we engage with and negotiate our feelings about disasters and tragedies from omnipresent media broadcasts to relief fund efforts and promises to Never Forget.
Recuber explains how a specific and real kind...
Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and ...
Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the 2008 financial crisis. In Consuming Catastrophe, Timothy Recuber presents a unique and provocative look at how these four very different disasters took a similar path through public consciousness. He explores the myriad ways we engage with and negotiate our feelings about disasters and tragedies from omnipresent media broadcasts to relief fund efforts and promises to Never Forget.
Recuber explains how a specific and real kind...
Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and ...
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those considering suicide, technology has become a medium for the dead and the dying to cope with the anxiety of death. Services like artificial intelligence chatbots, mind-uploading, and postmortem blog posts offer individuals the ability to cultivate their legacies in a bid for digital immortality. The Digital Departed explores the posthumous internet world from the perspective of both the living and the dead. Timothy Recuber traces how communication beyond...
A fascinating exploration of the social meaning of digital death From blogs written by terminally ill authors to online notes left by those consideri...
