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The ways that the brain and body record trauma are still mysteries to some extent, but it appears that repetition of a narrative—what sounds paradoxically like a retraumatization—helps neutralize it. Multiple exposures desensitize what a single exposure has made raw. Focusing on making suffering visible can also effectively obscure the invisible systems producing that suffering. And it allows one to expunge—or, better, forget—the privilege of being the seer rather than the (suffering) seen.
The ways that the brain and body record trauma are still mysteries to some extent, but it appears that repetition of a narrative—what sounds paradoxically like a retraumatization—helps neutralize it. Multiple exposures desensitize what a single exposure has made raw. Focusing on making suffering visible can also effectively obscure the invisible systems producing that suffering. And it allows one to expunge—or, better, forget—the privilege of being the seer rather than the (suffering) seen.
There are two separate but twinned approaches to building interactive media with humanitarian aims. One stems from the belief that verisimilitude breeds empathy: walk a mile in her (literal) shoes without being told what to believe, and you’re more likely to form a personal connection. Here, the idea is that the thinner the membrane between viewer and viewed—the less mediated the experience feels—the more emotionally resonant it will be. Of course, the less mediated the story feels, the more technology is actually required to mediate it; creating the illusion of total transparency requires a lot of work.
There are two separate but twinned approaches to building interactive media with humanitarian aims. One stems from the belief that verisimilitude breeds empathy: walk a mile in her (literal) shoes without being told what to believe, and you’re more likely to form a personal connection. Here, the idea is that the thinner the membrane between viewer and viewed—the less mediated the experience feels—the more emotionally resonant it will be. Of course, the less mediated the story feels, the more technology is actually required to mediate it; creating the illusion of total transparency requires a lot of work.
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