Author ORCID Identifier

0000-0003-2675-1673

Document Type

Conference Paper

Disciplines

5.4 SOCIOLOGY, 5.8 MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

Publication Details

Simmel, Social Media and the Debatable Virtues of Not Caring’. Presented at the European Culture and Technology Lab Annual Conference Techne logos, Care and the (Neg) Anthropocene, 20 January 2023.

https://doi.org/10.21427/wr2t-te79

Abstract

This paper asks how can bare to talk about the nightmares served up by our media? How can we witness horror, only to forget about it and have It replaced by fresh horror the next day? As Keith Tester wrote, most of us today, can ‘witness horror, and feel next to nothing’ (86). How has this become installed as a modern tradition? And, how might we communicate care while escaping from a cycle of outrage and forgetting.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/wr2t-te79

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