On Being Stalked

Emerson, Robert M.; Ferris, Kerry O.; Gardner, Carol Brooks

doi:10.1525/sp.1998.45.3.03x0193k

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“…The results on perceptions of stalking are far from consistent in regards to when the line between normal pursuit and stalking is crossed (Dunn 1999;Emerson et al 1998;Lee 1998;Sinclair andFrieze 2000, 2005). Reminiscent of the difficulty in defining stalking, examinations of what might influence these perceptions has led to a subset of research in which hypothetical scenarios are given to college student samples to gauge whether they would be labeled as stalking (e.g., Dennison and Thomson 2002).…”

Section: Perceptions Of Stalkingmentioning

confidence: 89%

An Introduction to Issues of Gender in Stalking Research

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Stalking research has increased substantially in the past 20 years. This special issue is intended to contribute to this literature by using gender as a focus point in 1) applying new theoretical perspectives that incorporate the role of gender to the study of stalking perpetration (Davis et al. 2010; Duntley and Buss 2010), 2) addressing divergent findings regarding gender in experiences of victims (Sheridan and Lyndon 2010) and perpetrators (Thompson et al. 2010), and 3) furthering the study of how gender influences perceptions of stalking (Cass and Rosay 2011; Dunlap et al. 2011; Sinclair 2010; Yanowitz and Yanowitz 2010). To place this special issue in context of the current state of knowledge on gender and stalking, we review the state of the existing research as it relates to the domains covered by articles present in this issue.

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Section: Perceptions Of Stalkingmentioning

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An Introduction to Issues of Gender in Stalking Research

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“…In the popular imagination, fans who pursue direct contact with media stars are seen as suspect, possibly unbalanced, and threatening in a variety of ways. Media fans suffer from a tainted reputation because of the violent celebrity stalker, an archetype that has received considerable press in the last decade (Emerson, Ferris, and Gardner 1998; Lowney and Best 1995; Zona, Sharma, and Lane 1993). Some media fans, few of whom would consider themselves stalkers, engage in practices designed to bring them into close personal contact with the celebrities they admire.…”

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confidence: 99%

Through a Glass, Darkly: The Dynamics of Fan‐Celebrity Encounters

Ferris

2001

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Mass media influence interaction in important ways: fans of serial television use mass media to incorporate the fictional and the extraordinary into their real, ordinary, everyday lives. Using ethnographic and interview data, this article examines the activities through which certain fans seek face‐to‐face encounters with the celebrities they admire and how this intersection of the ordinary with the extraordinary creates problems of interpretation that fans attempt to solve. Fans make and take advantage of opportunities for prestaged encounters at official public appearances by their favorite actors. Some fans may also encounter their favorite celebrities by chance in the course of their daily rounds in “celebrity sightings,” or unstaged encounters. Certain fans, however, actively pursue actors, deliberately seeking them out and creating fan‐staged encounters. These efforts produce a distinctive interactional tension in which pursuing fans recognize the similarities between their behavior and that of “celebrity stalkers” and attempt to differentiate themselves from the stalkers celebrities fear. This article analyzes these interactions as a step toward a theory of fan‐celebrity interaction.

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“…Their classification also reflected the conceptualization of stalking as obsessional following [17]. Again in the behavioural science literature, as in the wider society, attention shifted from star stalkers to men who stalked their ex‐partners [18–20]. Lowney and Best noted how the shift from a focus on star stalkers to a focus on men stalking their ex‐partners was accompanied by a shift in how stalkers were viewed from a mental health perspective [9].…”

Section: Stalking As Social Legal and Behavioural Sciences Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…male). Psychological, let alone psychiatric, accounts of the stalker’s motivation were virtually excluded in favour of regarding stalking as another example of men asserting power over women through violence and intimidation [8,19,21]. Subsequent studies of stalkers have, however, taken an increasingly broad approach to the types of motivation and choices of target found among stalkers [22–24].…”

Section: Stalking As Social Legal and Behavioural Sciences Discoursesmentioning

confidence: 99%