This book provides a cutting-edge introduction to Internet-facilitated crime-watching and
examines how social media have shifted the landscape for producing distributing and consuming
footage of crime. In this thought-provoking work Mark Wood examines the phenomenon of
antisocial media: participatory online domains where footage of crime is aggregated
sympathetically curated and consumed as entertainment. Focusing on Facebook pages dedicated to
hosting footage of street fights brawls and other forms of bareknuckle violence Wood
demonstrates that to properly grapple with antisocial media we must address not only their
content but also their software. In doing so this study goes a long way to addressing the
fundamental question: how have social media changed the way we consume crime?Synthesizing
criminology media theory software studies and digital sociology Antisocial Media is media
criminology for the Facebook age. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested
in social media cultural criminology and the crime-media interface.
