Instagram as a Shield for Nuns

Religious outsiders (here, elderly nuns) can use mainstream social platforms to resist internal institutional disciplinary moves by broadcasting their narrative and rallying public support. Institutional responses that demand social‑media silence, press bans, or forbidding counsel are a new form of procedural gagging that leverages legal and access asymmetries to reassert control. — This reframes church–member disputes as a template for how institutions will try to claw back narrative control in the era of mass social media, with implications for rights, elder care, and institutional accountability.