Colonising the narrative space: unliveable lives, unseeable struggles and the necropolitical governance of digital populations
Journal: Information Communication & Society
Year: 2023

Social media platforms play a critical civic role during times of conflict, war, and crises as spaces for people to document and share content that publicises instances of human rights violations, graphic violence, and material destruction. Such content not only function as primary materials in the narration of social and political realities, but also operate as intense sites of control when platforms, state, and non-state actors seek to censor them for various political and opaque reasons. This