Children of Zuwara: Facebook’s censored images

Authors

  • Bárbara Heller
  • Priscila Ferreira Perazzo
  • Vinicius Souza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.1222

Keywords:

Censura, Imagem intolerante, Facebook

Abstract

Images of Syrian refugees were printed in newspapers and virtual medias, during September, 2015. While Aylan Kurdi’s image, who drowned to death on a beach in Turkey became a meme, photos of other five dead children, also victims of the same civil war in Syria, have been censored by Facebook. Barbie Zelizer’s, Susan Sontag’s and Jacques Rancière’s theories help us to understand why these media objects received different treatments: while there is an “engaged art” in the Kurdish boy’s photo, there is a "political art" and an "intolerable image" in the others

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Published

27-04-2016

How to Cite

Heller, B., Perazzo, P. F., & Souza, V. (2016). Children of Zuwara: Facebook’s censored images. E-Compós, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.30962/ec.1222

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Section

Política