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...

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.

As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system.

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.