ABSTRACT

The digital age, information age or new media age is defined most commonly as the era beginning in the 1980s, enabled by the invention of the internet, personal computers and smart phones and the global spread of digital communication and the related digital culture: concepts, approaches, practices, tools and vocabulary. Digital trauma studies is the name of a novel interdisciplinary approach and an emerging research field that investigates the representation, transmission and processing of trauma – individual, as well as collective, historical and intergenerational – in the digital environment. Digital trauma studies examines in a digital context that how the perception of trauma has changed. The theoretical approach of digital trauma studies towards the understanding of the differences between pre/non-digital and digital trauma-processing is grounded in argumentation and insight established by psychological study of post-traumatic stress disorder. In the pre-digital age, writing was one of the main means of processing migration trauma/experience.