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- Explores how social media has changed the way footage of crime is viewed, consumed and distributed
- Draws on surveys with 205 Facebook fight page users and two years of online observation
- Outlines several ways that software is implicated in shaping cultural understandings of crime
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture (PSCMC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing, distributing, and consuming footage of crime. In this thought-provoking work, Mark Wood examines the phenomenon of antisocial media: participatory online domains where footage of crime is aggregated, sympathetically curated, and consumed as entertainment. Focusing on Facebook pages dedicated to hosting footage of street fights, brawls, and other forms of bareknuckle violence, Wood demonstrates that to properly grapple with antisocial media, we must address not only their content, but also their software. In doing so, this study goes a long way to addressing the fundamental question: how have social media changed the way we consume crime?
Synthesizing criminology, media theory, software studies, and digital sociology, Antisocial Media is media criminology for the Facebook age. It is essential reading for students andscholars interested in social media, cultural criminology, and the crime-media interface.
Authors and Affiliations
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Criminology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Mark A. Wood
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antisocial Media
Book Subtitle: Crime-watching in the Internet Age
Authors: Mark A. Wood
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63985-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63984-0Published: 13 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87690-0Published: 05 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63985-7Published: 26 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3912
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3920
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 238
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cybercrime, Crime and the Media, Crime and Society, Violence and Crime, Social Media, Media Sociology