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Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam [email protected] Tuesday, 31 March, 2015

Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam [email protected] Tuesday, 31 March, 2015

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Page 1: Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam trottier@eshcc.eur.nl Tuesday, 31 March, 2015

Digital vigilantism:Visibility as a Weapon?

Daniel TrottierErasmus University Rotterdam

[email protected], 31 March, 2015

Page 2: Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam trottier@eshcc.eur.nl Tuesday, 31 March, 2015

Introducing Digital Vigilantism (DV)

Page 3: Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam trottier@eshcc.eur.nl Tuesday, 31 March, 2015
Page 4: Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam trottier@eshcc.eur.nl Tuesday, 31 March, 2015

Digital Vigilantism

• …is a process where citizens are collectively offended by other citizen activity, and respond through coordinated retaliation

• Includes, but not limited to ‘naming and shaming’

• Unwanted, intense, enduring visibility• Local / national / transnational• Exclusively online / embodied activity• Target participation / target exclusion

Page 5: Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam trottier@eshcc.eur.nl Tuesday, 31 March, 2015
Page 6: Digital vigilantism: Visibility as a Weapon? Daniel Trottier Erasmus University Rotterdam trottier@eshcc.eur.nl Tuesday, 31 March, 2015

(i) DV and Digital Media Culture

• The ability to monitor and intervene in the lives of others

• DV as a communicative/mediated act, and a collective social act

• DV and cyber-bullying• Convergence of social spheres, complication

of online/offline and other spatial boundaries

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(i) DV and Digital Media Culture

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(i) DV and Digital Media Culture

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(ii) DV, State Power, Citizens, Violence

• Vigilantism as a kind of private violence• Challenge state monopoly on violent activity• Vigilantism, nationalism, and us / them• Communication counter-power?• How are police coping with DV?

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Introducing Surveillance

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(iii) DV, Surveillance, Privacy and Visibility

• Temporal and contextual gaps in surveillance• Mutual augmentation of surveillance• Complex nature of privacy and public space• Discrimination, lack of professionalism• How are individuals coping with involvement

in or subjection to DV?

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sousveillance lateral surveillance

participatory surveillance

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DVTargets

DV Participants

News Media

Police

Policymakers

Social Media