Exploring the presence of the digital detective within the true-crime genre and its online spaces
This chapter explores the spaces of true crime and the role digital detectives take when creating and sustaining these sites. Using true crime podcasts and documentaries as case studies, contributions by amateur sleuths have been shown to solve, re-open or question line of enquiries to unsolved crim...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Critiquing violent crime in the media
Year: 2021, Pages: 337-354 |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Summary: | This chapter explores the spaces of true crime and the role digital detectives take when creating and sustaining these sites. Using true crime podcasts and documentaries as case studies, contributions by amateur sleuths have been shown to solve, re-open or question line of enquiries to unsolved crimes. Access to online true crime spaces enables these digital detectives to create an online community to support their investigation. Their journeys are documented, and audiences can participate as they witness to their investigation. This allows audiences to fulfil an element of social interaction with the amateur sleuth as they become immersed in the online spaces they explore. This is shown to be activated by participating in dark tourism, particularly in the case of true crime podcasts due to their format of narrative transportation. Audiences’ need for integration is satisfied through their participation in true crime spaces as well as need for narrative transportation. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 352-354 |
| ISBN: | 9783030837570 |
