Samira Rajabi

Director of Technology Influenced Pedagogy, College of Media, Communication, and Information, University of Colorado

Samira Rajabi is an instructor and director of Technology Influenced Pedagogy at the University of Colorado’s College of Media, Communication, and Information. Before that she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and worked on her forthcoming book, All My Friends Live in My Computer: Tactical Media, Trauma, and Meaning Making. The proud daughter of immigrants from Iran, Samira explores ideas of suffering and belonging in immigrant communities and in communities facing trauma.

Photo of professor Samira Rajabi. She is standing outside of a building, the steps of which can be seen in the distant background. Samira is standing with her arms crossed, smiling. She has short dark hair, and is wearing a dark green and dark blue plaid blazer with a green and blue lacy blouse that has a high lacy collar.
Samira Rajabi

Written by Samira Rajabi

  • Photo of two people holding cell phones that are open to the TikTok app. One phone has the TikTok logo, and the other phone shows a photo of a man and his cat--the cat is wearing a hat and meowing.

    A TikTok Pandemic Story

    In 2020, a generation of young people experiencing isolation and loneliness in the midst of a pandemic seized on a new platform called TikTok. This new generation of media creators transformed trauma into creativity and, ultimately, connection.