[Commlist] New book: Trial by Media: Participatory Justice in a Networked World

Lieve Gies is very pleased to announce the publication of the new edited 
collection */Trial by Media: Participatory Justice in a Networked 
World/*//(Palgrave). Editor: Lieve Gies, University of Leicester
*https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80593-6 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80593-6>*

*About this book:*
This edited collection brings together scholars from criminology, law, 
media and communication studies, politics and linguistics to consider 
the different meanings and dimensions of trial by media. Trial by media 
remains an under-researched and under-conceptualised phenomenon. This 
book sheds new light on the complex and evolving interfaces between 
courts, media and justice. It features original analysis of high-profile 
cases of media trials including Nicola Bulley (UK), Lindy Chamberlain 
(Australia), Chris Dawson (Australia), Sanda Dia (Belgium), Dragan 
Vasiljković (Australia) and Roman Zadorov (Israel). Acknowledging the 
risks and benefits of heightened media scrutiny of the criminal justice 
system, the book challenges the notion that trial by media is invariably 
incompatible with the requirements of natural justice. It also 
foregrounds ways in which media trials routinely occur in the absence of 
a legal trial, arguing that there is a need to broaden and rethink the 
concept of trial by media. The book reflects on the enduring 
significance of legacy media for public perceptions of the law and the 
disruptive impact associated with digital media. Furthermore, the 
collection considers the implications of trial by media for the 
integrity of court proceedings and the protection of human rights. It 
offers an assessment of the potential demise of court reporting and its 
traditional bridging function between courts and public opinion.

*Foreword by Eugene McLaughlin*
*Contents*
*1 Introduction: Understanding trial by media and participatory justice 
in a networked world*
Lieve Gies
*Part I: Legacy media and the court of public opinion*
*2 Websleuthing before the web? Pre-digital sleuthing in public writing 
about Australia’s dingo baby case*
Belinda Middleweek
*3 Trial by film: Cases and causes in popular legal culture*
Stefan Machura
*4 Between a rock and a hard place: Israel’s courtroom journalists in 
the digital age*
Anat Peleg
*Part II: Social media and the perils of amateur sleuthing*
*5 The complexities of trial by social media: Examining the connection 
between self-exposure and harassment*
Azi Lev-on
*6 A gendered media spectacle for the digital era: Nicola Bulley, 
‘missing white woman syndrome’ and middle-class, middle-aged, menopausal 
womanhood on trial*
Tanya Horeck and Deborah Jermyn
*7 Playing their own private detectives: Digital witnessing, forensic 
fandom and true crime narratives*
Bethan Jones and Steff El Madawi
*Part III: Media campaigns for justice*
*8 “How we brought down a war criminal”: Defamation trials as an 
alternative space for justice*
Maria Rae
*9 The paradox of true crime podcasting: Advocacy, prejudice, and the 
pursuit of justice*
Katrina Clifford
*10 When is trial by media not trial by media?: Seeking justice for 
Sanda Dia in post-Dutroux Belgium*
Lieve Gies
*Part IV: Impacts of trial by media*
*11 The impact of media publicity on the presumption of innocence*
Maria Stoyanova
*12 The critical-forensic linguistic interface and the Spectrum of Trial 
by Media: Media-made sexual assault in the courtroom*
Simon Statham
*13 Publicity and legitimacy of public international law: The role of 
media in international legal proceedings*
Paolo Vargiu
**




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