@article{ref1,
title="Facebook and the Napalm Girl: reframing the iconic as pornographic",
journal="Social media and society",
year="2017",
author="Ibrahim, Yasmin",
volume="3",
number="4",
pages="e2056305117743140-e2056305117743140",
abstract="Facebook's banning of the photo of the iconic Napalm Girl before it was reinstated due to public criticism of the social networking facility was a symbolic and material act of incursion on the sacred. It underscored the prowess of the technology firm as a platform for content sharing from breaking news to banal images where millions of images are shared and integrated through networked relationships and its circulation economy, re-framing and re-configuring social memory, history and morality. More importantly, it asserted the &quot;technological gaze&quot; of Facebook where its system of managing content can turn the sacred into puerile and the puerile into popular entertainment, flattening, and re-mapping content through its own moral sensibilities. This Facebook economy imposes its own morality through its &quot;technological gaze,&quot; and in the process thwarts our &quot;projects of memory&quot; opening up wider ethical challenges for society and humanity.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2056-3051",
doi="10.1177/2056305117743140",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117743140"
}