Faith Kirigha is a digital media and political communication scholar working on digital governance, authoritarianism, and the restructuring of power in the Global South. She completed her PhD in Digital Media at the University of the Arts London, where she examined how cyber legislation, surveillance infrastructures, and platform governance discipline dissent and reshape media freedom in Kenya. Her current postdoctoral project with IRGAC, Empire in the Cloud, interrogates how contemporary empire is reproduced through digital infrastructures, advancing a critical analysis of platform power, data extraction, and global neo-colonial relations. Her work explores how states and technology corporations jointly produce regimes of digital control, contributing to emergent forms of authoritarianism and processes of fascisation. At the same time, her research traces how journalists, activists, and civil society actors contest these infrastructures, opening up questions of counter-strategy, solidarity, and the possibility of rethinking world order beyond the limits of liberal internationalism.