Introducing Vigilant Audiences
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2020), xiii, 342 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-1-78374-902-7 (pbk); 978-1-78374-903-4 (hkb); 978-1-78374-904-1 (pdf)
CC BY
"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 [China, Morocco, Russia and Slovenia]. 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." (Back cover)
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. Plesnièar 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
'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. Plesnièar 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
