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

• Main Author: Cox, Christine Anne R
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: digital vigilantism; surveillance; affordances; Facebook; social media; Communication; Social and Behavioral Sciences; Social Media
• Online Access: 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
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...