Antisocial Media

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.

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

Auteur
Mark Wood is a Lecturer in Criminology at The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Contenu

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Breaking the First Two Rules of Fight Club.- Chapter 3. Unpacking a Punch.- Chapter 4. Feeding Violence?.- Chapter 5. The Digital Arena.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Breaking up and Breaking down the Fight.