[Air-L] Open access book on Vigilant Audiences out now!

[Daniel Trottier]

Open access book on Vigilant Audiences out now!


*Introducing Vigilant Audiences*

edited by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov and Qian Huang Open Book
Publishers


Available at: https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0200


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.