Trigger Warnings (eBook, PDF)

History, Theory, Context
Redaktion: Knox, Emily J. M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

With "triggered" as Google's most searched word of 2016, trigger warnings have become a prevalent yet controversial concept in American higher education and society. As the debate over the value and place of triggering material continues, Trigger Warnings: History, Theory, Context provides the historical context and theoretical analysis of the use of trigger and content warnings in academia. This important edited collection examines the history, theories, and ethics of trigger warnings and presents case studies from instructors and students describing instances when trigger warnings were and were not used. By exploring the issue through several scholarly lenses and providing examples of when trigger warnings may or may not be used effectively, Trigger Warnings provides rigorous analysis of the controversy

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881866228
• Artikelnr.: 74399774

Autorenporträt

Emily J. M. Knox is assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests include information access, intellectual freedom and censorship, information ethics, information policy, and the intersection of print culture and reading practices. Knox's book Book Banning in 21st-Century America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) was the first book in the Beta Phi Mu Scholars Series.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. On Trigger Warnings
Emily J.M. Knox
Part I: History and Theory
Chapter 1. Like Trapdoors: A History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and
the Trigger Warning
Sarah Colbert
Chapter 2. Accessibility on Campus: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Duty to
Accommodate, and Trigger Warnings
Holly Taylor
Chapter 3. Contagious Speech: Mediating the Eating Disorder Panic Through
Trigger Warnings
Stephanie Grey
Chapter 4. Gender Constructions and Trauma: Trigger Warnings as an
Accommodation for Female Students in Higher Education
Jordan Doll
Chapter 5. Walking on the Shards of the Glass Ceiling
Jane Gavin-Hebert
Chapter 6. An "App" for That: The Case Against an 'Equal Access'
Bonnie Washick
Chapter 7. Writing Policy About Trigger Warnings: The Experience of the
American Association of University Professors and the American Library
Association
Barbara M. Jones
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 8. Institution-Wide Trigger Warnings: A Case Study of a
University's 'Common Reading'
Joe C. Martin & B