Criminology 1500 words Assignment

Social Media & Fear of Crime BRD205: Crime through the Ages

Learning Objectives: Be able to discuss…

The behavioural pattern changes associated with social media

Relationship between actual crime and fear of crime

Gender differences in fear of crime

Micro-level analysis: Crime and Disorder Model

News Media

• News Value Theory

• Proximity

• Continuity

• Influence

• Personalisation

• Reach

• Unexpectedness

• Damage/negative consequences, and

• Controversy

• Mean World Hypothesis

• Frequency

“ • 80% of social media news consumers clicked on

links to news stories

• 58% ‘liked’ news stories

• 49% shared or reposted news events

• 37% commented on news stories

• 36% posted news stories themselves

• 31% discussed issues in the news

• 19% posted photos of videos of news events

Social Media Consumption

• Anxiety

• Social Withdrawal

• Fear of Crime

Social Media and Hate Crime

• Brenton Tarrant faces: • 51 charges of murder,

• 40 charges of attempted murder, and

• 1 charge under the Terrorism Suppression Act

Fanning the Flames of Hate

• Anti-*insert religion*

• Anti-*insert race*

• Anti-*insert political affiliation*

Anything Good to Say?

References

Deibert, R.J. (2019). The road to digital unfreedom: Three painful truths about social media, Journal

of Democracy, 30(1), 25-39.

Intravia, J., Wolff, K.T., Paez, R., & Gibbs, B.R. (2017). Investigating the relationship between social

media consumption and fear of crime: A partial analysis of mostly young adults, Computers in

Human Behaviour, 77, 158-168.

Kelly, A., & Finlayson, A. (2015). Can Facebook save neighbourhood watch? The Police Journal,

88(1), 65-77.

Müller, K., & Schwarz, C. (2018). Fanning the flames of hate: Social media and hate crime, available

online: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3082972.