RT Article
T1 It's not all rp!s+($)s, M!rd3r3r($) and Ki!!3r($): true crime activism on TikTok
JF True crime and women
SP 155
OP 172
A1 Hobbs, Simon
A2 Hoffman, Megan
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1925122409
AB The hashtag #truecrime currently has over 35 billion views on the social media platform TikTok. Analysing the feeds of key female TikTokers, this chapter recognises the platform’s potential to enable forms of responsive, “action-oriented” activism that can empower marginalised voices and confront the true crime genre’s more exploitative trends. This chapter positions TikTok as a platform from which female content creators in particular, many of whom have had both personal experiences with crime and negative encounters with the more mainstream - and commercial - side of the true crime genre, can advocate for lesser-known cases, share their personal stories, and challenge the problematic aspects of popular true crime content by encouraging ethically minded participation from their audiences. In reading their activities as forms of digital activism, this chapter offers the optimistic view that TikTok has the potential to exist as a subversive space within wider networks of true crime consumption.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 169-172
SN 9781032520681