Introducing Vigilant Audiences
This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism - a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life. Longstanding forms of moral scrutiny and justice seeking are disseminated through our contemporary media landscape, and researchers are increasingly recognising the significance of societal impacts effected by digital media.
The authors engage with a range of cros...
Éditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 6 avril 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-6686-8
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2020
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-1-78374-902-7
Nombre de pages : xiii-342
Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov et Qian Huang
Introducing Vigilant AudiencesGilles Favarel-Garrigues
Criticism of Moral Policing in Russia: Controversies around Lev Protiv in MoscowSamuel Tanner, Valentine Crosset et Aurélie Campana
Far-Right Digital Vigilantism as Technical Mediation: Anti-Immigration Activism on YouTubeAbderrahim Chalfaouat
Empowerment, Social Distrust or Co-production of Security: A case Study of Digital Vigilantism in MoroccoMojca M. Plesničar et Pika Šarf
‘This Web Page Should Not Exist’: A case Study of Online Shaming in SloveniaTara Milbrandt
‘Make them famous’: Digital Vigilantism and Virtuous Denunciation after CharlottesvilleDavid M. Douglas
Doxing as Audience Vigilantism against Hate SpeechRianne Dekker et Albert Meijer
Citizens as Aides or Adversaries?Police Responses to Digital Vigilantism
This ground-breaking collection of essays examines the scope and consequences of digital vigilantism - a phenomenon emerging on a global scale, which sees digital audiences using social platforms to shape social and political life. Longstanding forms of moral scrutiny and justice seeking are disseminated through our contemporary media landscape, and researchers are increasingly recognising the significance of societal impacts effected by digital media.
The authors engage with a range of cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to explore the actions of a vigilant digital audience - denunciation, shaming, doxing - and to consider the role of the press and other public figures in supporting or contesting these activities. In turn, the volume illuminates several tensions underlying these justice seeking activities - from their capacity to reproduce categorical forms of discrimination, to the diverse motivations of the wider audiences who participate in vigilant denunciations.
This timely volume presents thoughtful case studies drawn both from high-profile Anglo-American contexts, and from developments in regions that have received less coverage in English-language scholarship. It is distinctive in its focus on the contested boundary between policing and entertainment, and on the various contexts in which the desire to seek retribution converges with the desire to consume entertainment.
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Daniel Trottier is an associate professor at the Department of Media and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research considers the use of digital media for the purposes of scrutiny, denunciation and shaming. Daniel is the PI of a five-year NWO-funded project on this topic. He has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals on this and other topics, as well as Social Media as Surveillance in 2012, Identity Problems in the Facebook Era in 2013, and Social Media, Politics and the State (co-edited with Christian Fuchs) in 2014. Daniel completed a PhD in Sociology at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada.
Rashid Gabdulhakov is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is researching digital vigilantism and its manifestation in Russia and other former Soviet republics. Rashid has authored several articles in peer-reviewed journals on this and other topics. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies degree in International and European Security from the University of Geneva, Switzerland and a Master of Arts in Politics and Security from the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic.
Qian Huang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her current research considers digital vigilantism on the Chinese Internet. Qian has several peer-reviewed publications concerning Chinese online phenomena in relation to the class struggle and nationalism in China. Qian received a Master’s degree in Global Communication from Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2014 after a Bachelor’s degree in English and International Studies from China Foreign Affairs University.
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