Introducing Vigilant Audiences

Daniel Trottier, Qian Huang, Rashid Gabdulhakov

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Ever since the exposure of the Kitten Killer of Hangshou captured the imagination of online communities world-wide, vigilantism and digilantism has come to the fore as an emerging and poignant issue. In their book Introducing Vigilant Audiences Daniel Trottier and colleagues (and contributors) have produced an excellent and throughtful ‘must read’ for all who are studying vigilantism, or just interested in it.

Prof. David Wall, University of Leeds





This is a collection of cutting edge and thoughtful case studies of global digital vigilantism that advances this emerging and increasingly important field in useful and intriguing ways.



Prof. Michael Pfeifer, City University of New York



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.



Introducing Vigilant Audiences will be of great value to researchers and students of sociology, politics, criminology, critical security studies, and media and communication. It will be of further interest to those who wish to understand recent cases of citizen-led justice seeking in their global context.

 

Sujets

• Sociology
• Social media
• Social life
• Digital media
• Web
• Politics
• World Wide Web

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 15 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783749058
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Introducing Vigilant Audiences

Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Edited by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov and Qian Huang






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Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Notes on Contributors
ix
Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov and Qian Huang
1
‘For the Greater Good?’ Vigilantism in Online Pop Culture Fandoms
Simone Driessen
25
Contesting the Vulgar Hanmai Performance from Kuaishou: Online Vigilantism toward Chinese Underclass Youths on Social Media Platforms
Jiaxi Hou
49
‘I don’t think that’s very funny’: Scrutiny of Comedy in the Digital Age
Isabel Linton
77
Criticism of Moral Policing in Russia: Controversies around Lev Protiv in Moscow
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
107
Far-Right Digital Vigilantism as Technical Mediation: Anti-Immigration Activism on YouTube
Samuel Tanner, Valentine Crosset and Aurélie Campana
129
Empowerment, Social Distrust or Co-production of Security: A Case Study of Digital Vigilantism in Morocco
Abderrahim Chalfaouat
161
‘This Web Page Should Not Exist’: A Case Study of Online Shaming in Slovenia
Mojca M. Plesn ič ar and Pika Šarf
187
‘Make them famous’: Digital Vigilantism and Virtuous Denunciation after Charlottesville
Tara Milbrandt
215
Doxing as Audience Vigilantism against Hate Speech
David M. Douglas
259
Citizens as Aides or Adversaries? Police Responses to Digital Vigilantism
Rianne Dekker and Albert Meijer
281
More Eyes on Crime?: The Rhetoric of Mediated Mugshots
Sarah Young
307
Index
331

Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [276–45–004], as well as by the Erasmus Open Access Fund.

Notes on Contributors
Aurélie Campana is professor of Political Science at Laval University. She held the Canada Research Chair on Conflicts and Terrorism between 2007 and 2017. She is associate director of the Canadian Research Network on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS) and member of the Centre International de Criminologie Comparée (Université de Montréal). Her research has focused for years on terrorism in internal conflicts; diffusion of violence across movements and borders and engagement in extremist movements, including Canadian far right groups. Her research appeared in numerous journals, including Studies in Conflict and Terrorism , Terrorism and Political Violence , International Studies Review , New Media & Society and Global Crime .
Abderrahim Chalfaouat is a media and communication researcher from Morocco. He holds a doctorate in advertising and communication (2019), and an MA in Moroccan American Studies (2011) from Hassan II University of Casablanca. His research interests include media discourse analysis, media policy and digital culture. He is an alumnus of the Annenberg Oxford media policy institute (Oxford, 2015). He also discussed the Arab Barometer findings at the American Institute for Maghrib Studies’ annual conference (Tunis, 2015). His publications include book chapters and journal articles, including “Media, freedom of expression and democratisation in post-colonial Morocco” (2015), and “Framing the judiciary in Morocco: The case of Moudawala and Immortal Past” (forthcoming).
Valentine Crosset recently completed her PhD in criminology at Université de Montréal. She is junior research affilitate of the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society (TSAS), member of the Cybercriminology Laboratory (Université de Montréal) and research assistant at the Cyberjustice Laboratory (Université de Montréal). Her research examines violent political expression online, content moderation and algorithmic regulation. She has published in several journals such as New Media & Society and Revue Critique Internationale .
Rianne Dekker is an assistant professor at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG/USBO). She studies (social) media as modern sources of social pressure within governance in two societal domains: (1) public security and (2) migration and integration. She uses co-design methods, including the living lab methodology as an engaged research practice.
David M. Douglas is a computer ethics researcher based in Australia. He was awarded a PhD in philosophy at the University of Queensland in 2011. He has served as an ethics advisor for the Center of Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT) at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He has published research papers on free software, Internet regulation, doxing and Internet research ethics.
Simone Driessen is a lecturer and researcher in media and communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2017, Simone completed her PhD on popular music fandom, researching how audiences gave meaning to pop music from the recent past (1980s-2000s). She has published her work in e.g. Participations , Transformative Works and Cultures and Popular Music & Society , and contributed to several edited collections on fandom and pop culture. Her research interests are participatory cultures, (toxic) fandoms, pop culture, and media entertainment at large.
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues holds a PhD in political science (2000) from Sciences Po and a “habilitation à diriger les recherches“ (2014) from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He currently works on vigilantism in a comparative perspective, especially in post-Soviet societies. He has recently edited two special issues on this topic: Citizens’ Crime Watch and Vigilantism in Post-Soviet Societies, Laboratorium , 11, 3, 2019 (with Ioulia Shukan), and Watchful Citizens: Policing from Below and Digital Vigilantism, Global Crime , forthcoming, 2020 (with Samuel Tanner and Daniel Trottier).
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.
Jiaxi Hou is a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies of the University of Tokyo, Japan. Her research centers on investigating the intricate relationships between digital technology and its social context, especially on how various digital media platforms contribute to the social class stratification process in Asian societies. She has received her MAS degree from the University of Tokyo, and a BA from the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University, China. She also works as an independent documentary producer, with a focus on the living conditions of young Chinese migrant workers.
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