The platformized communication of femicide in Greece: a populist critique of gendered violence from feminist community pages on social media

Kissas, Angelos and Koulaxi, Afroditi ORCID: 0000-0001-7769-5347 (2025) The platformized communication of femicide in Greece: a populist critique of gendered violence from feminist community pages on social media. Violence Against Women. ISSN 1077-8012 (In Press)

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Abstract

This article enquires into the communication of femicides in Greece as a discursive struggle over the emotional and moral recognition of their victims, waged through social media platforms. It is, specifically, interested in how high-traffic Greek feminist community pages on Facebook and Instagram engaged with incidents of women killings in 2021, the year that femicide rates peaked in the country. The article suggests that these pages develop a feminist-populist critique of femicide caught up in the algorithmic bias of platformized communication and reflects on whether this critique can not only raise awareness of gendered violence but also highlight the structural conditions under which it occurs.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman J Political Science H Social Sciences
Date Deposited:	16 Dec 2025 10:03
Last Modified:	19 Dec 2025 10:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130649

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