Digilantism: an analysis of crowdsourcing and the Boston Marathon bombings
This paper explores the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing incident and how members of the general public, through the online community Reddit, attempted to provide assistance to law enforcement through conducting their own parallel investigations. As we document through an analysis of user po...
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 341-361 |
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