From 24- hour cable news to YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, today’s mass media can turn local disasters into international events within minutes, and in doing so multiplies the disaster far beyond those just directly effected, but continues waves across the globe. On September 11th, 2001, thousands of people directly faced the worst form of terrorism our country has ever endured, all the while millions more watched the aftermath of the attacks unfold, which turned these terrorist attacks into not only a traumatic event for those who were effected by the attack but instead a collective trauma of every person directly or indirectly affected. The connection between a personable experience and mass media creates a warp of reality
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Butler speaks about the idea of how memory does not exist in narrative form on it’s own. We must use the act of translation in order to create a narrative. This includes anytime we even share our own story we must translate the memory into a narrative. This is a vital time for victims the traumatic event in New York City. Victims must use the coping method of finding a concrete story that they would like to use in order to share their experience. By being able to have one solid narrative they are able to block out some of the more traumatic and damaging experiences that they endured. However, mass media takes away the ability for victims to translate their own story into a narrative. Instead, the media chooses their own mode of translation by taking on one perspective of a victim and sharing in nation wide. Therefore, victims are unable to distance themselves from the event. News outlets chose their own narration of the vent and by doing so greatly expressed some of the most traumatic and painful memories that survivors have endured. Therefore, instead of being able to block out some of those painful memories, victims are forced to relive their experiences through the narration of the …show more content…
However, I would dare to argue back that the crystallization of memory that the mass media does takes away the personal experience of the victim. Therefore, the memory being crystalized by the news is one of a collective memory for the nation, not a crystalized memory for the victim to use as their own personal narrative that helps them to
Butler speaks about the idea of how memory does not exist in narrative form on it’s own. We must use the act of translation in order to create a narrative. This includes anytime we even share our own story we must translate the memory into a narrative. This is a vital time for victims the traumatic event in New York City. Victims must use the coping method of finding a concrete story that they would like to use in order to share their experience. By being able to have one solid narrative they are able to block out some of the more traumatic and damaging experiences that they endured. However, mass media takes away the ability for victims to translate their own story into a narrative. Instead, the media chooses their own mode of translation by taking on one perspective of a victim and sharing in nation wide. Therefore, victims are unable to distance themselves from the event. News outlets chose their own narration of the vent and by doing so greatly expressed some of the most traumatic and painful memories that survivors have endured. Therefore, instead of being able to block out some of those painful memories, victims are forced to relive their experiences through the narration of the …show more content…
However, I would dare to argue back that the crystallization of memory that the mass media does takes away the personal experience of the victim. Therefore, the memory being crystalized by the news is one of a collective memory for the nation, not a crystalized memory for the victim to use as their own personal narrative that helps them to