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Very excited to share my chapter, “Networked Afterlives: Necropolitical Algorithms and Rumours as Acts of Resurrection,” in the new edited collection The Digital Life of Grief: Online Mourning in the Age of Hashtags, Algorithms, and Social Media. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Soma Basu

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14 Aug

Edited by Katrin Gerber, Larissa Hjorth, and Crystal Abidin, The Digital Life of Grief is a timely, wide-ranging collection on how mourning and the politics of loss are being transformed by algorithms, hashtags, platform cultures, and digital memorial practices. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Soma Basu

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14 Aug

Drawing on sensory ethnography of the 2020 Delhi pogrom, my chapter develops “networked afterlife” to theorise how violent deaths continue to act politically through the circulation and misattribution of images, rumours, and digital traces. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

doi.orgNetworked afterlives | 12 | Necropolitical algorithms and rumours as aThis chapter examines how digital rumours and violent imagery shape the ongoing presence of the dead in Delhi after the 2020 pogrom. It introduces the concept

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I conceptualise rumour as an anticipatory form of this afterlife, and “algorithmic resurrection” as the mechanism through which past violence is repeatedly reactivated within necropolitical infrastructures, keeping some deaths politically active and usable across time. doi.org/10.4324/9781...

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Soma Basu

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14 Aug

Edited by #KatrinGerber, #LarissaHjorth, and #CrystalAbidin, this timely collection examines how digital platforms reshape grief, remembrance, and whose losses are amplified or erased online. doi.org/10.4324/9781... @routledgebooks.bsky.social #DigitalMourning #NewBookAlert

doi.orgThe Digital Life of Grief | Online Mourning in the Age of Hashtags, AlThis book investigates how mourning is transformed in the digital age, where grief is mediated by algorithms, circulated through hashtags, and shaped by the