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Editor<\/strong>
\nDr Kaniphnath Malhari Kudale<\/em>
\nAssociate Professor of English, Gurunanak Institute of Technology (GNITC), Hyderabad, Telangana, India<\/p>\n

General Editor<\/strong>
\nDr Tarun Tapas Mukherjee<\/em>
\nEditor, Rupkatha Journal<\/p>\n

About the Volume<\/strong><\/p>\n

Trauma has long been understood as a disruption of memory, identity, temporality, and subjectivity (Caruth, 1996; Herman, 1992; LaCapra, 2001; van der Kolk, 2014). Classical and contemporary trauma theory has consistently argued that traumatic experience resists direct representation, challenges the limits of language, and profoundly shapes both individual and collective consciousness (Caruth, 1996; Felman & Laub, 1992; Whitehead, 2004). However, the rapid expansion of digital technologies has transformed how trauma is experienced, narrated, and remembered. In an era increasingly characterised by algorithmic governance, ubiquitous connectivity, platform capitalism, artificial intelligence, and data surveillance, trauma is produced, mediated, and circulated through digital infrastructures in new and complex ways (Couldry & Mejias, 2019; Gillespie, 2018; Zuboff, 2019; Hoskins, 2018). The study of trauma therefore requires moving beyond exclusively psychological and literary frameworks to engage critically with the infrastructures, interfaces, and epistemologies of digital culture, where memory, affect, identity, and social relations are increasingly constituted through networked technologies and algorithmic systems (Couldry & Hepp, 2017; Hoskins, 2018; van Dijck, 2007).<\/p>\n

Social media platforms, predictive algorithms, generative artificial intelligence, immersive virtual environments, and networked communication have fundamentally transformed the relationship between memory, affect, embodiment, and technology. Digital environments have become sites of witnessing, activism, commodification, surveillance, and affective governance, where experiences of trauma are documented, contested, and circulated across networked publics (Papacharissi, 2015; Gillespie, 2018; Couldry & Mejias, 2019). Algorithms increasingly curate visibility, shape public memory, and influence the circulation of narratives of violence, grief, vulnerability, and resilience, thereby determining which experiences become publicly recognised and which remain marginalised (van Dijck, 2007; Gillespie, 2018; Zuboff, 2019). Consequently, trauma has become both an intensely personal experience and a networked cultural phenomenon, mediated through screens, data, and algorithmic systems that reshape the production, circulation, and remembrance of suffering (Hoskins, 2018; Couldry & Hepp, 2017; Zuboff, 2019). This volume seeks to examine the complex intersections between digital technologies and traumatic experience. For this, it draws upon developments in trauma studies, affect theory, media and platform studies, digital humanities, critical algorithm studies, posthumanism, feminist theory, memory studies, science and technology studies (STS), and critical AI studies. The volume understands digital infrastructures as active participants in the production of subjectivity, emotional life, and social relations. It also considers how digital spaces can simultaneously reproduce structural inequalities while creating new possibilities for resistance, solidarity, healing, and collective remembrance.<\/p>\n

The volume invites critical reflections on questions such as:<\/p>\n