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Femicide as content: How media, algorithms shape public attention

Online, gender-based violence is often reduced to images that can be consumed quickly.Survivors continue living with the consequences long after public attention has shifted.[Collins Oduor, Standard]

There is a TikTok trend built around a gospel song by Christina Shusho: “Kijana kanipenda, kanichukua, kanitengeza…” loosely translated as “Jesus loved me, took me in, and cared for me.” But the images now attached to the sound tell a different story.

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