Constructing crime: Culture, stalking, celebrity and cyber
Crime, Media, Culture, Vol. 3, No. 2, 158-174 (2007)
http://cmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/2/158?etoc
Maggie Wykes
"The impetus for this article came, in part, from press reports that the Internet played a role in the case of the murder of British television presenter, Jill Dando, in 1999 by someone who, it was alleged, had `stalked' her, and further from the recognition that, in recent years, `crime' and `stalking' and `cyber' have come to be seen together in western culture, often in the company of someone `famous'. To explore the significance of the discourses emerging from these relationships, this article moves beyond criminology, or at least extends its very elastic boundaries. The exploration in this article stemmed from a curiosity about cyber-stalking as a new crime but evolved as a theoretical connection that illuminates a contemporary celebritification and commodification of aesthetics, crime and culture."
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