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What’s the deal with ‘websleuthing’? News media representations of amateur detectives in networked spaces
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Yardley, Elizabeth Lynes, Adam Wilson, David B. Kelly, Emma |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | This article explores websleuthing, a phenomenon widely discussed and debated in popular culture but little-researched by criminologists. Drawing upon a review of existing literature and analysis of news media representations, we argue that websleuthing is much more diverse than previously thought. Encompassing a wide range of motives, manifestations, activities, networked spaces and cases, websleuthing has a variety of impacts upon victims, secondary victims, suspects, criminal justice organisations and websleuths themselves. We conclude that websleuthing is the embodiment of true crime infotainment in a ‘wound culture’ (Seltzer, 2007, 2008) and as such, is deserving of more criminological scrutiny than has been the case to date. |
| Starting Page | 1741659016674045 |
| Ending Page | 1741659016674045 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1177/1741659016674045 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/5750/1/__staff_shares_storage_2gb_ID115181_Websleuths_CMC_2016.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659016674045 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Notice |
