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INTRODUCING VIGILANT
AUDIENCES
Introducing Vigilant
Audiences
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Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov
and Qian Huang
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introducing Vigilant Audiences 1
Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov and Qian Huang
‘For the Greater Good?’ Vigilantism in Online Pop Culture 25
Fandoms
Simone Driessen
Contesting the Vulgar Hanmai Performance from Kuaishou: 49
Online Vigilantism toward Chinese Underclass Youths on Social
Media Platforms
Jiaxi Hou
‘I don’t think that’s very funny’: Scrutiny of Comedy in the 77
Digital Age
Isabel Linton
Criticism of Moral Policing in Russia: Controversies around Lev 107
Protiv in Moscow
Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
Far-Right Digital Vigilantism as Technical Mediation: Anti- 129
Immigration Activism on YouTube
Samuel Tanner, Valentine Crosset and Aurélie Campana
Empowerment, Social Distrust or Co-production of Security: A 161
Case Study of Digital Vigilantism in Morocco
Abderrahim Chalfaouat
‘This Web Page Should Not Exist’: A Case Study of Online 187
Shaming in Slovenia
Mojca M. Plesničar and Pika Šarf
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‘Make them famous’: Digital Vigilantism and Virtuous 215
Denunciation after Charlottesville
Tara Milbrandt
Doxing as Audience Vigilantism against Hate Speech 259
David M. Douglas
Citizens as Aides or Adversaries? Police Responses to Digital 281
Vigilantism
Rianne Dekker and Albert Meijer
More Eyes on Crime?: The Rhetoric of Mediated Mugshots 307
Sarah Young
Index 331
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) [276–45–004], as well as by the Erasmus Open Access
Fund.
