Author ORCID Identifier
Document Type
Conference Paper
Disciplines
5.4 SOCIOLOGY, 5.8 MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS
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
Recommended Citation
Brennan, Edward, "Simmel, Social Media and the Debatable Virtues of Not Caring" (2023). Conference Papers. 56.
https://arrow.tudublin.ie/aaschmedcon/56
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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