RT Book
T1 Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
A1 Stuart, Forrest
LA English
PP Princeton, NJ
PB Princeton University Press
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1698569556
AB Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. From the Drug Economy to the Attention Economy -- 2. Algorithms, Analytics, and AK-47s -- 3. Keepin’ It Real -- 4. Cashing In on Clout -- 5. When Keepin’ It Real Goes Wrong -- 6. Digital Slumming -- 7. Hometown Heroes or Local Menace? -- Conclusion -- Author’s Note -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
AB How poor urban youth in Chicago use social media to profit from portrayals of gang violence, and the questions this raises about poverty, opportunities, and public voyeurismAmid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they’re capitalizing on the public’s fascination with the ghetto and gang violence. But with what consequences? Ballad of the Bullet follows the Corner Boys, a group of thirty or so young men on Chicago’s South Side who have hitched their dreams of success to the creation of “drill music” (slang for “shooting music”). Drillers disseminate this competitive genre of hyperviolent, hyperlocal, DIY-style gangsta rap digitally, hoping to amass millions of clicks, views, and followers—and a ticket out of poverty. But in this perverse system of benefits, where online popularity can convert into offline rewards, the risks can be too great.Drawing on extensive fieldwork and countless interviews compiled from daily, close interactions with the Corner Boys, as well as time spent with their families, friends, music producers, and followers, Forrest Stuart looks at the lives and motivations of these young men. Stuart examines why drillers choose to embrace rather than distance themselves from negative stereotypes, using the web to assert their supposed superior criminality over rival gangs. While these virtual displays of ghetto authenticity—the saturation of social media with images of guns, drugs, and urban warfare—can lead to online notoriety and actual resources, including cash, housing, guns, sex, and, for a select few, upward mobility, drillers frequently end up behind bars, seriously injured, or dead.Raising questions about online celebrity, public voyeurism, and the commodification of the ghetto, Ballad of the Bullet offers a singular look at what happens when the digital economy and urban poverty collide
OP 288
CN HV6439.U7
SN 978-0-691-20008-8
K1 Violence : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Technology and youth : Social aspects
K1 Gangs : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Social Media : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Urban poor : Illinois : Chicago
K1 Gangs-Illinois-Chicago
K1 Social Science / Sociology / Urban
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
K1 Social Science / Violence In Society
K1 Social Science / Media Studies
K1 Youtube
K1 Music video
K1 Driller (oil)
K1 Twitter
K1 Gang
K1 Instagram
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
K1 Popularity
K1 Chief Keef
K1 Sociology
K1 Blog
K1 Disadvantage
K1 Self-brand
K1 Poverty
K1 New Media
K1 Reputation
K1 Robbery
K1 Crime
K1 Facebook
K1 Technology
K1 Rapper (electrostatic precipitation)
K1 Firearm
K1 Shit
K1 Drive-by shooting
K1 Career
K1 Social Media
K1 Law Enforcement
K1 Security Guard
K1 Employment
K1 Competition
K1 Jeffrey Lane
K1 Pierre Bourdieu
K1 SSYVPP
K1 South Side Youth Violence Prevention Project
K1 Taylor Park
K1 The Digital Street
K1 The Wire
K1 black super-predator
K1 digital slumming
K1 drill rap
K1 drug economy
K1 gang conflicts
K1 gang rivalries
K1 gang warfare
K1 ghetto violence
K1 micro-celebrity
K1 music videos
K1 representation of urban gang violence
K1 self-made entrepreneur
K1 social media celebrity
K1 social media fame
K1 social media policing
K1 street life
K1 street violence
K1 urban communities
K1 urban ethnography
K1 urban sociology
K1 urban studies
K1 urban violence
K1 attention economy
K1 Chicago, Ill. : Slum : Bande : Jugendkultur : Gangsta-Rap : Social Media
K1 eBook-DeGruyter-EBS-2021-2022
DO 10.1515/9780691200088