Accomplishing Reality Media: The Affective Lure of Online Crime Discussions

IF 1.4 1区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Cultural Sociology Pub Date : 2022-11-17 DOI:10.1177/17499755221113944

E. Hannerz, Veronika Burcar Alm, David Wästerfors

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Abstract

Drawing from interviews with posters and an analysis of a dozen discussion threads on the Swedish online discussion forum Flashback, this article sets out to investigate the dramatization of crime news from the point of view of the participants themselves. Analyzing both the online discussions and the articulated motivations and activities of the posters, this article focuses on how participants in these crime discussion threads come together around an epistemic quest for the truth, but also how discussions are ritualized so as to give rise to a collective effervescence and unity when the epistemic drama is perceived to have been resolved, and the truth is revealed to the wider public. Accordingly, this article seeks to remedy a gap in the previous research on online crime discussions by focusing less on the investigative aspects of such work – for example, how participants collaborate to solve crimes – and more on the symbolic and affective aspects of the dramatization of these discussions of crime. What is at the forefront is thus how participants make sense of their engagement and experience of these online discussions, rather than the actual criminal case. To refer to this as an epistemic drama is to highlight how activities, ideals and identities are ordered and sequenced through a ritualization of collective online participation, but also how it involves the establishment of (1) a particular predicament, (2) a collective objective, and (3) ultimately some sort of perceived emotional climax related to solving this predicament through the collective objective.

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成就现实媒体:网络犯罪的情感诱惑探讨

本文通过对海报的采访和对瑞典在线讨论论坛Flashback上十几条讨论线索的分析，试图从参与者自身的角度来调查犯罪新闻的戏剧化。本文分析了网上讨论以及海报的明确动机和活动，重点关注这些犯罪讨论线索的参与者如何围绕对真相的认识追求走到一起，以及当认识戏剧被认为已经解决时，讨论是如何仪式化的，从而产生集体的兴奋和团结，真相向广大公众揭示。因此，本文试图弥补以往关于网络犯罪讨论的研究中的空白，减少对此类工作的调查方面的关注，例如参与者如何合作解决犯罪，而更多地关注这些犯罪讨论戏剧化的象征和情感方面。因此，最重要的是参与者如何理解他们对这些在线讨论的参与和体验，而不是实际的刑事案件。将其称为一部认识论戏剧，是为了强调活动、理想和身份是如何通过集体在线参与的仪式化来排序的，但也强调它如何涉及（1）特定困境的建立，（2）集体目标，以及（3）最终某种感知到的情绪高潮，与通过集体目标解决这一困境有关。

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Cultural Sociology SOCIOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.30

自引率

10.50%

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期刊介绍： Cultural Sociology publishes empirically oriented, theoretically sophisticated, methodologically rigorous papers, which explore from a broad set of sociological perspectives a diverse range of socio-cultural forces, phenomena, institutions and contexts. The objective of Cultural Sociology is to publish original articles which advance the field of cultural sociology and the sociology of culture. The journal seeks to consolidate, develop and promote the arena of sociological understandings of culture, and is intended to be pivotal in defining both what this arena is like currently and what it could become in the future. Cultural Sociology will publish innovative, sociologically-informed work concerned with cultural processes and artefacts, broadly defined.