Trauma Memory And Media Representation

Disasters have always been accompanied by the development of human civilization,whether it is natural disasters such as earthquakes,floods,and sandstorms,or major infectious diseases such as Ebola,Spanish flu,SARS,or man-made incidents such as the Bhopal poisoning incident and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident.Disasters are causing great pain to mankind.But as time goes by,people usually use "forgetting" to heal the wounds caused by disasters.If there is a lack of attention to disaster events,there will be a lack of effective response capabilities.the media has been became an important medium for constructing and reshaping the memories of disaster events with the rapid development of information technology.Therefore,it is very meaningful for the media to study the construction of disaster events.The study of the collective memory of catastrophic events in this article has both temporal continuity and spatial malleability.The continuation of time mainly involves two aspects.On the one hand,the post disaster report is the continuation of the report when the disaster happened,emphasizing the "reflection of reflection" after the disaster.On the other hand,it is based on the memory forming context of disaster events constructed on time.First of all,the real subject of any memory is the individual.Therefore,this article starts with the individual's memory of the disaster event,and then the media begins to enter the scene,evokes conflicts and disasters by "showing" words,pictures,influences and other symbols.The memory of the event,and then realize the collective identity.But the media is not in the memory of the disaster event,but also involves forgetting.As disasters leave indelible marks on the individual,what remains in the individual's heart is the traumatic memory.This article is conceived and written based on the evolution of disaster event memory.Based on the research concept of this article,it will involve the expansion of the memory space of the disaster event media.(1)The memory space with the "body" as the carrier,the practice of memory based on the "body" and the inheritance and writing of traumatic memories;(2)The memory with the mass media as the carrier,whether it is the medium of collective memory of disaster events The reappearance is also the process of dissemination and inheritance of personal traumatic memories,and the mass media has played a key role in it.From the perspective of disaster events,the mass media not only tells the history of disaster reporting,but also retells the history of disaster recurrence.From an individual perspective,the mass media's periodic reports and commemorations of disaster events continue to evoke individual memories and improve their ability to respond to disaster events.At the same time,the mass media will also reshape individual memories through artistic means such as film and television works.(3)The memory space with digital media as the carrier.With the development of technology,the memory of disaster events also tends to be digitized,such as the establishment of network memorials and the writing of personal trauma by individuals through digital media;(4)The museum as a carrier The memory space,as a place for memory carrying,realizes the dissemination and inheritance of collective memory through the construction of context.Media representation plays an important role in the construction of collective memory of disaster events.