Trauma

Strange Vigils: Digitally Rhetorical in a Moment of Technological Trauma

by profjalexander June 4, 2012 Blog Carnival
Screen shot of "Strange Vigil: For Tyler Clementi"

I think the best way I can show what digital rhetoric means to me is by showing how I have attempted to enact it.
Shortly after news broke about the suicide of Tyler Clementi, a young Rutgers student whose sexual liaison with another male student was video broadcast by his roommate, I wanted to compose a piece that would commemorate this young man while also drawing attention to the ongoing psychic trauma inflicted on young queer people growing up in a homophobic society.

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