Shock ME.
About
Shock Me explores media overexposure and information overload in relation to the theory of compassion fatigue and its gradual effects on society over time.
Compassion fatigue and its effects on the general public derives from secondary traumatic stress disorder. Secondary traumatic stress disorder is common amongst individuals that work directly with trauma victims. It is argued that the media has created pervasive compassion fatigue in society. There is growing concern that new technological development allows basic and untraceable use of picture manipulation which induces the public to be undisturbed about the candid content of these photographs. With the acceptance of television "documentary-dramas" that narrate fiction within factual context, it is not surprising that news organisations have used ‘Hollywood style’ practices to craft realities.
Mission
Shock Me is an interactive experiment which needs the online interaction of the general public.
YOU
So this is what you need to do…
We want you and your friends to find the most shocking videos and photographs, which have circulated the world’s media from past to present.
Using sources such as newspapers, the Internet, magazines, television, adverts etc. find your material and then post it on our Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter or YouTube.