Theorizing criminality and policing in the digital media age

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS),this volume in Emerald' Studies in Media and Communications' features social science research on criminality, policing, and mass media in the digital age....

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Wiest, Julie (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesStudies in media and communications ; v. 20.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839091131
DOI10.1108/S2050-2060202120
Physical Description1 online resource (xxii, 196 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Section I. New opportunities for criminals and police
  • Chapter 1. Does exposure matter? Media, education, and experience affecting technology-mediated abuse knowledge, understanding, and severity-perceptions / Jessica J. Eckstein, and Ruth Quattro
  • Chapter 2. Dealing with deepfakes: Reddit, online content moderation, and situational crime prevention / Kristjan Kikerpill, Andra Siibak, and Suido Valli
  • Chapter 3. Attaining security through algorithms: perspectives of refugees and data experts / Tayfun Kasapoglu, and Anu Masso
  • Section II. Digital media representations of criminality and policing
  • Chapter 4. Dramatization of the @Gangsta: Instagram cred in the age of glocalized gang culture / Nicola Bozzi
  • Chapter 5. Perp walks as contested rituals: documents, affordances, and performances / Mary Angela Bock
  • Chapter 6. Images of crime: empathic newsworthiness and digital technologies in the production of police news on television in Argentina / Mercedes Calzado, and Vanesa Lio
  • Section III. Studying criminality and policing in the digital media age. Chapter 7. "Every day when I go to work, I wonder if it will be the day I die": sensemaking mass media and school shootings / Victoria McDermott, and Amy May
  • Chapter 8. Lost in the mediascape: embracing uncertainties and contradictions at the cultural nexus of crime and media / Nickie D. Phillips, Nicholas Chagnon
  • Chapter 9. Five things that went wrong with media violence research / Tom Grimes, and Stephanie Dailey.