Vicarious Exhaustion: Empathy Deficit in the Digital Age : Tragedy, Overexposure, and the Complete Emotional Numbing in Global Social Media.DE

Brown, Jeanne

epubli（2026発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版
• 商品コード 9783565388318

Description

Investigate the sociological epidemic of compassion fade, explaining how endless exposure to global digital tragedy forces the human brain into emotional paralysis. We are currently exposed to more global tragedy in a single afternoon of scrolling than our ancestors witnessed in an entire lifetime. The human brain was evolutionarily designed to process the suffering of a small, local tribe, not the aggregated trauma of eight billion people. When constantly bombarded by high-stakes emotional crises through digital feeds, our neurology eventually hits a hard limit.To protect the host from complete psychological collapse, the brain's empathy circuits simply shut down. This phenomenon, known as compassion fade or psychic numbing, occurs when the sheer volume of victims transforms individual human suffering into an abstract, overwhelming statistic. The algorithmic prioritization of outrage over nuance accelerates this process, leaving populations chronically exhausted and entirely apathetic to global events.This book investigates the sociological epidemic of vicarious exhaustion. You will examine the mathematical tipping points where human empathy turns into sheer apathy, the mechanics of the attention economy, and the clinical reality of secondary traumatic stress among the general public.Navigate the psychological toll of the information age. Learn how to protect your emotional bandwidth from the relentless extraction of the global digital news cycle.