Introducing Vigilant Audiences
OBP collectionÉditeur : Open Book Publishers
Lieu d’édition : Cambridge
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 6 avril 2021
Collection : OBP collection
Année d’édition : 2020
Nombre de pages : xiii-342
Présentation
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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Sommaire
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

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