ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a novel conceptualization of citizen voice in terms of the securitization of news' a discursive practice of digital journalism that, in the context of humanitarian' wars, prioritizes the suffering produced by conflict as a cause for concern and possibly action for the West by drawing on securitization theory. It describes subsequently employ this conceptualization in a comparative analysis of BBC's convergent news on two post-Arab Spring conflicts, Libya and Syria, so as to show how differences in the incorporation of citizen voice in its digital news platforms produce variations in the securitization of news across contexts. The unprecedented potential of digital media to globally disseminate citizen voice granted it is in fact changes in the conduct of warfare that have elevated civilian testimonies to a necessary, rather than optional, component of contemporary war and conflict reporting.
