Publication Bans in a Facebook Age: How Internet Vigilantes Have Challenged the Youth Criminal Justice Act’s “Secrecy Laws” Following the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot

Arvanitidis, Tania

doi:10.15353/cgjsc-rcessc.v5i1.142

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“…While legal efforts to sanction doxxing specifically has progressed slowly, government entities have also been directly involved in doxxing. For instance, police in Canada and the U.S. have released photos of faces and names of suspects on social media (Arvanitidis, 2016;Stewart, 2014) and have become, unknowingly, part of harassment schemes through swatting, an extreme form of doxxing. In these cases, harassers falsely report an ongoing severe crime at a person's address resulting in a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team being deployed.…”

Section: The Evolution Of Doxxingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doxxing, Privacy and Gendered Harassment. The Shock and Normalization of Veillance Cultures

Eckert¹,

Metzger‐Riftkin²

2020

M&K

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We conducted 15 in-depth interviews with women and men in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, and the United States who were victims of doxxing. The goal was to understand their experiences, their responses, and the consequences they faced. We understand doxxing as a complex, gendered communicative process of harassment. Doxxers use digital media technologies to expose personal information without consent given by those to whom the personal information belongs. We apply a feminist approach to surveillance studies to doxxing, focusing on the constructions of daily, habitual, and ubiquitous assemblages of veillances that disproportionately impact vulnerable individuals. We found that gendered aspects shaped the flow and suspected intent of doxxing and subsequent harassment. Victims experienced uncertainty, loss of control, and fear, while law enforcement and social media providers only helped in a few cases to pursue doxxers or remove unwanted personal information. We ultimately extend the definition of doxxing by considering the ubiquitous nature of information shared online in gendered veillance cultures. Our findings lead us to advocate for protecting the contextual integrity of entering personal information into expected, intentional, or desired spaces.

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Section: The Evolution Of Doxxingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Doxxing, Privacy and Gendered Harassment. The Shock and Normalization of Veillance Cultures

Eckert¹,

Metzger‐Riftkin²

2020

M&K

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“…The policing of the hockey riots was unique because, unlike traditional policing approaches, social media and crowdsourcing provided tools for ordinary citizens to engage in crowdsourced investigations. In other words, the line between citizen and traditional policing had been blurred (Arvanitidis, 2016; Schneider & Trottier, 2012).…”

Section: Crowdsourcing: From a Business Idea To Way Of Doing Criminologymentioning

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Crowdsourcing Criminology: Social Media and Citizen Policing in Missing Person Cases

Gray

Benning

2019

Sage Open

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Criminology is undergoing a process of innovation and experimentation with the rise of social media. Although police have traditionally been the locus of legal enforcement, ordinary citizens are increasingly afforded opportunities to participate in crowdsourced investigations. In this article, we explore the emerging field of crowdsourcing criminology and its relationship to newsmaking criminology, public criminology, and the reshaping of news as infotainment (popular criminology). Drawing on a case study of a missing person named Emma Fillipoff, and our experience of involvement in the development of a television (TV) documentary dedicated to help finding Emma, we examine the process of crowdsourcing in practice and how it may oscillate between infotainment and public criminology inspired by academic evidence. Crowdsourcing criminology represents both a theoretical and an applied shift in our research focus and paves the way for a host of new projects that strive to reveal the strategies and techniques that define and characterize crowdsourced investigations.

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“…In a Canadian case study of online naming and shaming, Arvanitidis (2016) explored the aftermath of the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riots. The riots broke out after the Boston Bruins ice hockey team defeated the Vancouver Canucks.…”

Section: Literature Review – Vigilante Reborn!mentioning

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“…Similarly, language used by media organisations is important to the way that criminal events and actors come to be understood (Arvanitidis, 2016). Journalists and news media organisations should avoid the use of language that implies support for naming and shaming.…”

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The NEW adventures of the digital vigilante! Facebook users’ views on online naming and shaming

Dunsby

Howes

2018

Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology

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Increasingly, digital vigilante activity occurs via social media and can have negative consequences in the broader social world, a phenomenon that can be examined productively through a cultural criminological lens. One example of digital vigilantism is the online naming and shaming of people who are convicted or suspected of crime and subjecting them to embarrassment, harassment, and/or condemnation. To contribute to the prevention of negative impacts of online naming and shaming, this study aimed to better understand Australian Facebook users’ views about – and experiences of participating in – online naming and shaming. Participants (n = 122) were primarily young Tasmanian adults who completed an online qualitative survey. Over one-quarter (26%) of participants reported having liked posts that name and shame a person suspected or convicted of crime, with smaller proportions engaging with these posts by sharing or commenting on them. Whilst Facebook users recognised the potential for online naming and shaming to impede justice, they perceived the practice as appropriate if it would foster community awareness and maintain community welfare. The findings are discussed in light of the roles of Facebook users’ emotions, the social media as a cultural product, and the mediascape in constructing versions of reality. Practical implications of the study include the need for policing and media organisations to consider ways to meet their information needs without inadvertently encouraging acts of digital vigilantism. Overall, this study contributes to increased understanding of digital vigilantism and highlights the integral role of social media as a cultural product.

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Publication Bans in a Facebook Age: How Internet Vigilantes Have Challenged the Youth Criminal Justice Act’s “Secrecy Laws” Following the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Doxxing, Privacy and Gendered Harassment. The Shock and Normalization of Veillance Cultures

Doxxing, Privacy and Gendered Harassment. The Shock and Normalization of Veillance Cultures

Crowdsourcing Criminology: Social Media and Citizen Policing in Missing Person Cases

The NEW adventures of the digital vigilante! Facebook users’ views on online naming and shaming

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