Crime, justice and social media / Michael Salter.

Author
Salter, Michael, 1980- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2017.
Description
186 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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    "How is social media changing contemporary understandings of crime and injustice, and what contribution can it make to justice-seeking? Abuse on social media often involves betrayals of trust and invasions of privacy that range from the public circulation of intimate photographs to mass campaigns of public abuse and harassment using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, 8chan and Reddit--forms of abuse that disproportionately target women and children. The book argues that online abuse is not discontinuous with established patterns of inequality but rather intersects with and amplifies them. Embedded within social media platforms are inducements to abuse and harass other users who are rarely provided with the tools to protect themselves or interrupt the abuse of others. There is a relationship between the values that shape the technological design and administration of social media, and those that inform the use of abuse and harassment to exclude and marginalise diverse participants in public life."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-177) and index.
    Contents
    • Towards a critical theory of online abuse
    • Gamergate and the subpolitics of abuse in online publics
    • Becoming Facebook famous : commodification and exploitation on social media
    • Attention whores and gym selfies : sex and nudity in the online visual economy
    • Dick pics, sexting and revenge porn : weaponising gendered power online
    • From #OpGabon to #OpDeathEaters : transnational justice flows on social media.
    ISBN
    • 9781138919662 ((hardback))
    • 1138919667 ((hardback))
    • 9781138919679 ((pbk.))
    • 1138919675 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2016007981
    OCLC
    913768078
    Other standard number
    • 99970609051
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