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SUMMARY:Between Justice Seeking and Entertainment: Digital Vigilantism and
  the Court of Public Opinion
DTSTART:20231127T131500
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DESCRIPTION:Daniel Trottier\, Associate Professor at the Department of Med
 ia and Communication of Erasmus University Rotterdam\nIndividuals rely on 
 digital media to denounce others. In some cases this is accepted as an app
 ropriate response to criminal and moral injustices\, or other grievances. 
 Yet digital vigilantism may also bring unwarranted harms\, for example whe
 n reproducing categorical forms of discrimination. Both offence taking and
  its response are expressed online by gathering and distributing informati
 on about targeted individuals.\n\nBy seeking their own form of criminal an
 d social justice\, digital media users can challenge state legitimacy. Yet
  digital vigilantism includes shaming and other forms of cultural violence
  that are not clearly monopolised\, or even regulated. While earlier schol
 arship considers the court of public opinion in terms of journalistic inte
 rventions in legal proceedings\, this presentation proposes a radical expa
 nsion of both the actors involved and the cases explored in the public eye
 . This amounts to a mainstreaming of the scrutiny and assessment of both p
 ublic figures and private citizens through an assemblage of actors\, devic
 es and platforms. While movements like #metoo bring accountability to long
 -neglected forms of sexual violence and oppression\, these repertoires are
  also mobilised by alt-right populists for political gain.\n\nThis present
 ation is attentive to the routinisation of mediated scrutiny and denunciat
 ion\, in order to situate the discourses and practices that gain salience.
  Focusing on prominent and minor cases in the Anglo-American and Dutch con
 texts\, it suggests that not only are sites like Twitter and Reddit platfo
 rms for disputing targets’ reputations but that the legitimacy of these 
 very practices is also frequently disputed. \n\nDaniel Trottier\nDaniel T
 rottier is an Associate Professor at the Department of Media and Communica
 tion of Erasmus University Rotterdam. His current research considers the u
 se of digital media for the purposes of scrutiny\, denunciation and shamin
 g. In addition to contributing to various EU-funded projects on matters of
  security\, privacy and digital media\, Daniel was the PI of a five-year N
 WO-funded project entitled “Digital Vigilantism: Mapping the terrain and
  assessing societal impacts." Since September 2020 Daniel coordinates a on
 e-year Master’s specialisation entitled “Digitalisation\, Surveillance
  and Societies.”\n 
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