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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484896803321

Titolo

Capitalism, Crime and Media in the 21st Century / / edited by Neil Ewen, Alan Grattan, Marcus Leaning, Paul Manning

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030564445

3030564444

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture, , 2946-3920

Disciplina

364.254

364

Soggetti

Communication

Popular culture

Criminal behavior

Crime - Sociological aspects

Media and Communication

Popular Culture

Criminal Behavior

Crime and Society

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction -- 2 ‘Grabbing and Keeping’: Deadwood—The Origin of Specie -- 3. ‘Rosie’s Room’ and ‘Bullet’s Phone’: The Commodification of the Lost Girl in The Killing and Its Paratexts -- 4. Noir Tourism and the Black Dahlia Murder -- 5. Reporting Crime and Capitalism: Techniques of Neutralisation in a Corpus of Corporate Fraud News -- 6 Think Tanks, News Sources and Neo-liberal News Discourse: Off-shoring Power and Influence -- 7. Friends in High Places: Sexual Abuse, Power and the Corruptions of Jimmy Savile -- 8. From Chopping Trees to Destroying Capitalism: A Social Etymology of Hacking -- 9. The Loyalist Community of Northern Ireland: From Cultural Defenders to Subcultural Offenders? A Cultural Criminology Exploration -- 10. Activist Media, Social Media and Mediated Republican Deviance in the Northern Irish Peace Process -- 11. Save the Troll! UK Social Media



Legislation and the Attack on Freedom of Speech.

Sommario/riassunto

This edited collection from leading scholars in the fields of media, communications, cultural studies and a number of aligned areas looks to the intersection of capitalism, crime and the media. The text is founded on the principles of cultural criminology – that how we determine and understand crime lies in the social world and that the determination of crime and its mediation in popular culture have a political basis. The book consists of eleven chapters and is divided into three sections. Section one considers the intersection of crime and capitalism in a range of contemporary cultural texts. Section two examines how various power systems influence the operation of the media in its role of reporting crime and holding the powerful to account. Section three considers how texts in a variety of formats are used to conduct politics, communicate politics and enact political decision making. .