TY - JOUR AU - Kasra, Mona PY - 2016/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - ONLINE IMAGERY: THE NON-STATE MEANS OF SOCIAL CONTROL IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY JF - AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research JA - SPIR VL - 6 IS - 0 SE - Papers K DO - UR - https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8768 SP - AB - In recent years, images of executions of dissidents have been frequently distributed online by various terrorists and vigilante groups. This paper focuses on the implications and perils of the digital-networked image and explores their capacity to function as mechanisms for establishing power, disciplinary force, and social control. It considers the ways by which digital-networked images can perpetuate unjust and undemocratic intention and facilitate the propagation of intolerance and vigilantism. Finally, the permanent retention of information and the perpetual irretrievability of digital-networked images on the Web in indefinitely shaming, punishing, and exploiting the photographed is evaluated. ER -