Samira Rajabi, Mediating Possibility after Suffering: Meaning Making of the Micro-political through Digital Media

"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." [pdf]