Dismantling Power Relations and Reinstating Human Agency during a Mediatized/Digitalized Pandemic in A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth

Rawae Karmim

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Dismantling Power Relations and Reinstating Human Agency during a Mediatized/Digitalized Pandemic in A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth

Authors:

Rawae Karmim

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.78-87

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842975

pISSN:

2509-1743

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Abstract:

 The mediatized and digitalized Covid-19 pandemic proved that human agency can easilybe governed and dominated by a hegemony that takes advantage of both knowledge as well asthe productivity of power in order to maintain a pre-established and unquestionable statusquo. As a matter of fact, experiencing a pandemic during a digital age with a severe lack ofmedia literacy is worth analysis, scrutiny, and study, for the availability and the rapidity ofinformation presents a rising issue. Thus, this paper will shed light on four aspects thepandemic has uncovered during lived experiences of a collective trauma within a digitalrealm: the weaponization of fear by governments who seek to dominate and control themasses, the dissemination of a culture of grief, the international spreading of politics of loss,and the prevailingness of agenda, dogma, and propaganda. More precisely, this study willprovide a reading of Laura Dodsworth’s book A State of Fear all while relating it to the eventsof the pandemic and their effects on mainstream history, human agency, and the collectivememory of the nations.Keywords: Digital realm, pandemic, fear, culture of grief, propaganda, dogma.

Article Details

Dismantling Power Relations and Reinstating Human Agency during a Mediatized/Digitalized Pandemic in A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth

Authors:

Rawae Karmim

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.78-87

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842975

pISSN:

2509-1743

Covid 19 Pandemic

Grief Culture

Propaganda

Agency

Laura Dodsworth

State of Fear

Issues

Article Details

Dismantling Power Relations and Reinstating Human Agency during a Mediatized/Digitalized Pandemic in A State of Fear by Laura Dodsworth

Authors: Rawae Karmim

Publisher: 'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal: Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.78-87

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 9/2024

Document Language: English

Document ID (Org No.): 2001842975

pISSN: 2509-1743

Covid 19 Pandemic

Grief Culture

Propaganda

Agency

Laura Dodsworth

State of Fear

Issues

Authors:

Rawae Karmim

Publisher:

'Identity and Difference' Research Group

Journal:

Ikhtilaf Journal of Critical Humanities and Social Studies Vol.2 Issue 1, pp.78-87

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

9/2024

Document Language:

English

Document ID (Org No.):

2001842975

pISSN:

2509-1743