Leveraging Visibility, Gaining Capital? Social Media Use in the Fight Against Child Abusers: The Case of The Judge Beauce

Myles, Daniel; Trottier, Daniel

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“…As a result, platforms shape discourses by promoting the values that emerge from their affordances. For example, platforms prioritize visibility as a crucial value (Myles & Trottier, 2017). Visibility allows others to engage with content and share and react to it.…”

Section: Toxic Discourses: Toward a Conceptmentioning

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The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media

Recuero

2024

Social Media + Society

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Discourse has long been recognized as a source of symbolic violence, perpetuating power relations and reinforcing existing social hierarchies. With the rise of social media platforms, the influence of discourse on society has gained renewed attention. These platforms, while enabling social interactions, also serve as catalysts for violent behaviors, reinforcing and legitimizing forms of oppression and symbolic violence, particularly the violence of language. While the concept of toxicity is frequently used to describe this phenomenon, its meaning and connection to language often remain unexplored. This article aims to address this gap by examining the significance of toxicity in discourse and how the infrastructure of social media platforms facilitates the emergence of toxic discourses. It argues that while toxicity and violence are related, they are distinct phenomena. Toxicity, as a dimension of symbolic violence, contaminates debates and discourses, and is enabled by the characteristics of platformization in online interactions. Thus, toxicity is an effect of platforms mediating social interactions.

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Section: Toxic Discourses: Toward a Conceptmentioning

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The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media

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2024

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“…In addition to the understanding of the term in line with the concept of vigilantism, i.e. as a means to harm political targets (Trottier, 2017), "mediated visibility" also refers to the visibility of actions as a form of strategy (Thompson, 2005) that serves to augment their impact and social recognition and thus gain and leverage social and political capital (Myles & Trottier, 2017). The network that is created, ultimately, may also be utilized for security practices (Dupont, 2004).…”

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“The first combat meme brigade of the Slovak internet”: hybridization of civic engagement through digital media trolling

Vicenová

Trottier

2020

The Communication Review

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This paper analyzes a locally bound and hybridized form of civic engagement through digital media. Based on an explorative case study of a Slovak Facebook page called Zomri, engaged mostly in both mockery and denunciation of societal and political actors, the paper aims to challenge existing conceptual definitions of social media-based civic engagements, pointing to its hybridization. Through in-depth interviews with its founders and a survey of its supporters, we position the group and its activities through three separate lenses (trolling, digital vigilantism, and citizen journalism) that constitute an emergent category of dynamic and politically influential civic society actor.

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Denunciation and doxing: towards a conceptual model of digital vigilantism

Trottier

2019

Global Crime

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Individuals rely on digital media to denounce and shame other individuals. This may serve to seek justice in response to perceived offences, while often reproducing categorical forms of discrimination. Both offence taking and its response are expressed online by gathering and distributing information about targeted individuals. By seeking their own form of social and/or criminal justice, participants may supersede institutions and formal procedures. Yet digital vigilantism includes shaming and other forms of cultural violence that are not as clearly regulated. They may feed from state or press-led initiatives to shame targets, or simply to gather information about them. Digital vigilantism remains a contested practice: Terms of appropriate use are unclear, and public discourse may vary based on the severity of the offence, the severity of response, and on participants' identities and affiliations. This paper advances a conceptually informed model of digital vigilantism, in recognition of its coordinated, moral and communicative components. Drawing upon literature on embodied vigilantism as well as concurrent forms of online coordination and harassment, it considers recent cases in a global context in order to direct subsequent analysis of how digital vigilantism is rendered meaningful.

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Leveraging Visibility, Gaining Capital? Social Media Use in the Fight Against Child Abusers: The Case of The Judge Beauce

Cited by 3 publications

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The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media

The Platformization of Violence: Toward a Concept of Discursive Toxicity on Social Media

“The first combat meme brigade of the Slovak internet”: hybridization of civic engagement through digital media trolling

Denunciation and doxing: towards a conceptual model of digital vigilantism

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