Social Media Victimization

Theories and Impacts of Cyberpunishment

Jessica Emami (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

116 Seiten

2025
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-2966-1 (ISBN)

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The public has always appreciated communication technology for its ability to bring people together but every week we read more and more stories of someone who commits suicide, gets fired, gets "canceled", abandoned, or worse, because of a conflict or misunderstanding involving social media. By examining the technological shortcomings of online media platforms as well as the inhumane speed of information travel, Emami emphasizes that the technology itself is implicated in the current environment of ubiquitous conflict and the pursuit of punishing others online. Using theories that originated in studies of extremism and terrorism, Jessica Emami analyzes the processes that drive people to punish others using social media. Emami demonstrates that "cyberpunishment" is driven by outrage against our personal sense of morality, and a deep desire for our act of punishment to be acknowledged by others. This attitude is maximized on today's social media platforms which are, by their very structure, unable to curb or resist cyberpunishment. This book would be of interest to scholars and students in sociology, criminology, and media studies.

Jessica Emami is adjunct professor of sociology at American University. She specializes in technology and globalization.

Introduction
Chapter 1: This is an Outrage!
Chapter 2: Instilling Terror – On- and Offline
Chapter 3: When Images Lie
Chapter 4: No Sense of Face
Chapter 5: News Worlds
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	23.11.2024
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-2966-8 / 1793629668
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-2966-1 / 9781793629661
Zustand	Neuware