Transmedia Crime Stories
The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere
Editors: Gies, Lieve, Bortoluzzi, Maria (Eds.)
Free Preview- One of the first full-length academic titles on the Amanda Knox case
- Includes a Foreword by Yvonne Jewkes, research professor at the University of Brighton, UK and author of Media and Crime
- Brings together some of the leading scholars from a number of fields
- Highly multidisciplinary
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- About this book
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This collection focuses on media representations of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, defendants in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, encompassing criminology, socio-legal analysis, critical discourse studies, cultural studies and celebrity studies, the book analyses how this case was narrated in the media and why Knox emerged as the main protagonist. The case was one of the first transmedia crime stories, shaped and influenced by its circulation between a variety of media platforms. The chapters show how the new media landscape impacts on the way in which different stakeholders, from suspects and victims’ families to journalists and the general public, are engaging with criminal justice. While traditional news media played a significant role in the construction of innocence and guilt, social media offered users a worldwide forum to talk back in a way that both amplified and challenged the dominant media narrative biased in favour of a presumption of guilt.
This book begins with a new and original foreword written by Yvonne Jewkes, University of Brighton, UK. - About the authors
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Lieve Gies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. Her research principally concerns the intersections between law, media and popular culture. Her publications include Law and the Media: The Future of an Uneasy Relationship (2008) and Mediating Human Rights: Media, Culture and Human Rights Law (2014).
Maria Bortoluzzi is Associate Professor of English Language at the University of Udine, Italy. Her research interests are in the areas of critical discourse studies and teacher education. Her latest research work and publications deal with language in social media communities and ICT for language teacher education.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction: Transmedia Crime Stories
Pages 1-13
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What’s in a Name? The UK Newspapers’ Fabrication and Commodification of Foxy Knoxy
Pages 17-45
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Scarlet Letters from Perugia: ‘Slut-Shaming’ and the Media Representations of Amanda Knox
Pages 47-68
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(A)moral Representation: The Hyper-sexual Construction of Amanda Knox
Pages 69-85
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SIAMO INNOCENTI: Twitter and the Performative Practices of the ‘Real’ Amanda Knox
Pages 89-109
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Transmedia Crime Stories
- Book Subtitle
- The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere
- Editors
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- Lieve Gies
- Maria Bortoluzzi
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-59004-6
- DOI
- 10.1057/978-1-137-59004-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-59003-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-95485-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXVII, 236
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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