Abstract

This article examines the creative projects that circulated in digital media following the murder of three Muslim college students in Chapel Hill, NC, in February 2015. Through an engagement with affect theory and digital mourning studies, this article critically analyzes the limitations of affect in the digital moment, as the complex lives of the victims were reduced to simple but highly resonate icons. Despite the limitations of these affective icons, I argue that the contradictory emotions of successful happiness and unimaginable grief that adhered to these images enabled Muslims to cultivate feelings of resonance. At the same time, Muslims were expected to perform constant affective labor to prove the worth and equality of their lives. Finally, my analysis of this case illustrates how these heavily affective images reinforced that Muslim lives are only valued if they are positive, harmless and apolitical.

中文翻译：

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通过教堂山被害人的情感形象培养穆斯林生活的共鸣和共鸣

摘要

本文研究了2015年2月在北卡罗来纳州教堂山（Chapel Hill）杀害三名穆斯林大学生后在数字媒体中传播的创意项目。通过与情感理论和数字哀悼研究的结合，本文对情感在情感障碍方面的局限性进行了批判性分析。数字化的时刻，因为受害者的复杂生活被简化为简单但引起共鸣的标志。尽管这些情感偶像有局限性，但我认为，成功的幸福与难以想象的悲伤相矛盾的情感依附在这些图像上，使穆斯林能够养成共鸣的感觉。同时，人们希望穆斯林不断地进行情感劳动，以证明他们的生活价值和平等。最后，