[Commlist] Open access book on Vigilant Audiences published

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 
<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.


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