Taking the Law into their (Virtual) Hands: Facebook and Digital Vigilantism

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Cox, Christine Anne R
• التنسيق: text
• منشور في: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• الموضوعات: digital vigilantism; surveillance; affordances; Facebook; social media; Communication; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Media
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://archium.ateneo.edu/comm-faculty-pubs/29; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/comm-faculty-pubs/article/1029/viewcontent/Taking_the_Law_into_their__Virtual__Hands.pdf

Digital vigilantism is an emerging phenomenon whereby netizens engage in forms of targeted surveillance, naming and shaming through new media, supposedly for social justice ends. The multi-layered case of Christine Dacera, the Filipina flight attendant who was found dead on New Years Day 2021, is on...