Social Death: on the social mediatization of atrocity E12

Reflecting on current events, Mariel and Colin discuss the proliferation of atrocity images on social media. What is at stake when these images are treated as a tool of political mobilization?

References:

Sontag, Susan. 2003. Regarding the Pain of Others.

Eubanks, W. Ralph. 2025. Emmett Till Then and Now. in Bulletin by Monument Lab.

Hernandez, Joe. 2021. “Read this powerful statement from Darnella Frazier, who filmed George Floyd’s murder.” NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/26/1000475344/read-this-powerful-statement-from-darnella-frazier-who-filmed-george-floyds-murd

Jackson, Jenn. 2022. “The Militancy of (Black) Memory ” SAQ. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-9825933

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