[ecrea] Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication Releases CARGC Paper 9

The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the 
Annenberg School for Communication is proud to present CARGC Paper 9, 
“Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the 
Micro-political through Digital Media,” by CARGC Postdoctoral Fellow, 
Samira Rajabi.

Using three empirical case studies from Instagram, Rajabi examines the 
Trump administration’s 2017 travel ban as a traumatic experience and its 
digital mediation. She first explores a general understanding of trauma 
as it relates to global media studies and then develops the notion of 
“symbolic trauma” to understand how Iranian-Americans mediated the 
travel ban’s effects.

CARGC Director Marwan M. Kraidy notes in his introduction, “by tackling 
affect and trauma in the context of the Iranian diaspora and the United 
States administration of President Donald Trump’s so-called ‘Muslim 
Ban,’ Dr. Rajabi beautifully blends the study of individual suffering 
and expression with nationalism, immigration, and geopolitics.”

Samira Rajabi completed her Ph.D. in Media Research and Practice at the 
University of Colorado at Boulder, where her research focused on digital 
media's affordances in meaning making processes, particularly related to 
trauma. Rajabi also has a degree in Business Management and 
Entrepreneurship, a minor in French from the University of Colorado at 
Boulder, and a Masters in International and Intercultural Communication 
from the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International 
Studies and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications. Rajabi is 
a scholar of development, international relations, feminist theory, and 
communication. Her research interests include international 
communication, trans-national boundaries, and the way culture, 
particularly popular culture in digital media, have consequences for 
social systems and movements. Samira's work attempts to bridge public 
scholarship, academia, and social justice advocacy with leadership in 
her community.

Download CARGC Paper 9 here: http://bit.ly/2wk64d0

Read previous CARGC Papers at ScholarlyCommons: _http://bit.ly/2ui8OHJ_


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