The Platformized Communication of Femicide in Greece: A Populist Critique of Gendered Violence From Feminist Community Pages on Social Media

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.