Cultivating Empathy and Resonance for Muslim Lives Through Affective Images of the Chapel Hill Victims

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2020-05-09 DOI:10.1093/ccc/tcz048

Kristin M. Peterson

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Abstract

This article examines the creative projects that circulated in digital media following the murder of three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill, NC, in February 2015. Through an engagement with affect theory and digital mourning studies, this article critically analyzes the limitations of affect in the digital moment, as the complex lives of the victims were reduced to simple but highly resonate icons. Despite the limitations of these affective icons, I argue that the contradictory emotions of successful happiness and unimaginable grief that adhered to these images enabled Muslims to cultivate feelings of resonance. At the same time, Muslims were expected to perform constant affective labor to prove the worth and equality of their lives. Finally, my analysis of this case illustrates how these heavily affective images reinforced that Muslim lives are only valued if they are positive, harmless and apolitical.

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通过教堂山受害者的情感形象培养对穆斯林生活的同情和共鸣

本文检视2015年2月北卡州教堂山三名穆斯林大学生遭谋杀后，数位媒体上流传的创意计画。通过对情感理论和数字哀悼研究的参与，本文批判性地分析了数字时代情感的局限性，因为受害者的复杂生活被简化为简单但高度共鸣的图标。尽管这些情感图标有局限性，但我认为，依附于这些图像的成功的幸福和难以想象的悲伤的矛盾情绪，使穆斯林能够培养共鸣的感觉。与此同时，穆斯林被期望进行持续的情感劳动，以证明他们生命的价值和平等。最后，我对这个案例的分析表明，这些极具感情色彩的图像是如何强化了这样一种观念，即穆斯林的生活只有在积极、无害和不涉及政治的情况下才会受到重视。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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期刊介绍： CCC provides an international forum for critical research in communication, media, and cultural studies. We welcome high-quality research and analyses that place questions of power, inequality, and justice at the center of empirical and theoretical inquiry. CCC seeks to bring a diversity of critical approaches (political economy, feminist analysis, critical race theory, postcolonial critique, cultural studies, queer theory) to bear on the role of communication, media, and culture in power dynamics on a global scale. CCC is especially interested in critical scholarship that engages with emerging lines of inquiry across the humanities and social sciences. We seek to explore the place of mediated communication in current topics of theorization and cross-disciplinary research (including affect, branding, posthumanism, labor, temporality, ordinariness, and networked everyday life, to name just a few examples). In the coming years, we anticipate publishing special issues on these themes.