Contents

Acknowledgements

vii

Notes on Contributors

ix

Introducing Vigilant Audiences

Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov and Qian Huang

1

‘For the Greater Good?’ Vigilantism in Online Pop Culture Fandoms

Simone Driessen

25

Contesting the Vulgar Hanmai Performance from Kuaishou: Online Vigilantism toward Chinese Underclass Youths on Social Media Platforms

Jiaxi Hou

49

‘I don’t think that’s very funny’: Scrutiny of Comedy in the Digital Age

Isabel Linton

77

Criticism of Moral Policing in Russia: Controversies around Lev Protiv in Moscow

Gilles Favarel-Garrigues

107

Far-Right Digital Vigilantism as Technical Mediation: Anti-Immigration Activism on YouTube

Samuel Tanner, Valentine Crosset and Aurélie Campana

129

Empowerment, Social Distrust or Co-production of Security: A Case Study of Digital Vigilantism in Morocco

Abderrahim Chalfaouat

161

‘This Web Page Should Not Exist’: A Case Study of Online Shaming in Slovenia

Mojca M. Plesničar and Pika Šarf

187

‘Make them famous’: Digital Vigilantism and Virtuous Denunciation after Charlottesville

Tara Milbrandt

215

Doxing as Audience Vigilantism against Hate Speech

David M. Douglas

259

Citizens as Aides or Adversaries? Police Responses to Digital Vigilantism

Rianne Dekker and Albert Meijer

281

More Eyes on Crime?: The Rhetoric of Mediated Mugshots

Sarah Young

307

Index

331