Where do tattoos come from, and why do we get them? Folks usually get tattoos to reflect something about themselves — but that’s not always the case. This video looks at some examples of that over the past six millennia, medical tattooing, tattooing in Polynesian cultures, the Holocaust, Mr. Rogers, and the internet’s effect on empathy.

 

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ANCIENT TATTOOS

• Egyptian mummies
• Chilean revision
• Otzi

MEDICAL TATTOOING

• Auberon Wolf
• Medical Tattooing

POLYNESIAN TATTOO RESOURCES

• Wendt, Albert. Tatauing the Post-Colonial Body
• Ta Moko history
• Ta Moko today
• Kakau – Hawai’ian tattoing

HOLOCAUST RESOURCES

• The Auschwitz Museum & Memorial
• The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC

MISTER ROGERS

• Fred Rogers Productions

INTERNET AND EMPATHY
https://doaj.org/article/30743c28514541e294107a9285ec9a94 — Empathy and the Internet: Positive Potentials vs. Risks
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00498 — Impaired Empathy Processing in Individuals with Internet Addiction Disorder: An Event-Related Potential Study
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359178917300459 — Systematic review of empirical studies on cyberbullying in adults: What we know and what we should investigate
https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2137 — Cyberbullying among Adolescent Bystanders: Role of the Communication Medium, Form of Violence, and Empathy
https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84942078049&origin=inward&txGid=6ff53925bdde6826f03ed7c2df969ae9 — Prospective teachers’ likelihood of performing unethical behaviors in the real and virtual environments
Anonymously hurting others online: The effect of anonymity on cyberbullying frequency. — http://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-38201-001