Serial killers and the production of the uncanny in digital participatory culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6443536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Glitsos (0000-0003-2576-6371, Edith Cowan University), Mark Deuze (0000-0002-1986-5050, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 5691-5709 |
| Publication date | 2024-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Media & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14614448241253764 |
| OpenAlex | W4399176727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Many theorists have expounded on what serial killing says about the social in any given context and the ways in which serial killing and media are entangled, in particular, Mark Seltzer, Jon Stratton and Elliot Leyton. However, in this article, we ask, how is serial killer mythology developing in relation to participatory culture typical of our current digital environment? In scaffolding discourse analysis with theories from various literature, such as Judith Fathalla and Mark Deuze, what we find is that people’s lives as lived in media open up radically new spaces through which media publics consume, cultivate and perform knowledge about serial killers, enabling them to exercise a reconfigured sense of control over the ‘story’ of the serial killer as a myth and as a deviant Other that embodies an encounter with the uncanny
Aesthetics · Art · Citizen journalism · Digital culture · Economics · Internet privacy · Knowledge management · Knowledge production · Media studies · Participatory culture · Political science · Production (economics · Sociology · Uncanny · Cinema and Media Studies · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law
Murders and Acquisitions
Powers of Horror
Reading Serial Killer Fanfiction
Monsters of the Market
Zombie Theory
Killer Folklore
Transgressive clowns
When serial killers go unseen
Almost famous
Monsters Inc
Visualizing YouTube’s comment space
Being a Fangirl of a Serial Killer Is Not Ok’
Murdering stepmothers
When it comes to the true crime community, Taylor is a legend’
The Claremont serial killer and the production of class-based suburbia in serial killer mythology
The Scene of the Crime
Jack the Ripper and the London Press
Participation, Remediation, Bricolage
Wound Culture
Serial Killing and the Transformation of the Social
The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life
Dark Fandoms
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |