All My Friends Live in My Computer
ISBN: 9781978818996
Platform/Publisher: De Gruyter / Rutgers University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited

All My Friends Live in my Computer combines personal stories, media studies, and interdisciplinary theories to examine case studies from three unique parts of society. From illness narratives among breast cancer patients to political upheaval among Iranian-Americans, this book examines what people do when they go online after they have suffered a trauma. It offers in-depth academic analysis alongside deeply personal stories and case studies to take the reader on a journey through rapidly changing digital/social worlds. When people are traumatized, their worlds stop making sense, and All My Friends Live in My Computer explores how everyday people use social media to try and make a new world for themselves and others who are suffering. Through its attention to personal stories and application of media theory to new contexts, this book highlights how, when given the tools, people will make meaning in creative, novel, and healing ways.

Samira Rajabi is an Author, Public Speaker and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado specializing in trauma, digital media, identity and meaning making. Samira is also a freelance culture writer and qualitative research consultant specializing in research design. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.

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