Media witnessing: journalism and vigilantism

Bearing witness to expose the Israeli military: Janna Jihad's activism as a Palestinian citizen journalist

Paper

Kelly Burnet

01/09/2022

13 minutes to read

In this paper, fifteen-year-old citizen journalist and activist Janna Jihad will be discussed. We will investigate how digital journalism, citizen witnessing and the affordances of social media contribute to Janna Jihad's activism.

Picture of Madeleine van den Nieuwenhuizen

How Zeikschrift exposes and reshapes Dutch media

Paper

Iris Olde Hampsink

11/04/2022

13 minutes to read

This paper discusses the content on the Instagram account Zeikschrift and explores how Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen uses the digital vigilantism practices 'calling out' and 'naming and shaming' to criticize and reshape various Dutch media.

How fake news website ‘De Nieuwe Media’ uses journalistic terminology

Paper

Ruben den Boer

06/04/2022

10 minutes to read

The content on fake news websites might not be considered journalistic, these websites do use journalistic terminology. To understand how, we analyze the website of De Nieuwe Media.

Digital Vigilantism: Justice for a Syrian Refugee Family

Paper

Noa Reijnen

19/05/2021

10 minutes to read

A story about a Syrian refugee family being terrorized by their neighbors went viral on social media, and people demanded justice for the family. This digital vigilantism case will be analyzed in this paper.

How Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen is changing Dutch media from within

Paper

Lola Vos

15/03/2021

12 minutes to read

Through digital vigilantis, media critic Madeleijn van den Nieuwenhuizen shares mistreatments in the Dutch media on her Instagram account "Zeikschrift." In this article, I analyse her Instagram account and the message it conveys.

Digital vigilantism during COVID-19 : The Chengdu patient

Article

Meiyi Su

31/05/2021

10 minutes to read

This article explores the human flesh search and attempted digital vigilantism that took place following the announcement of four sudden COVID-19 cases in the previously stabilized Chinese city of Chengdu.

Karen and digital vigilantism

Article

Aleksandra Dimitrova

21/09/2022

10 minutes to read

‘Karen’ videos are on the rise, but who is the digital vigilantes and who is the offender? Some aspects of dangerous forms of digital vigilantism.

Calling out the homofobus

Article

Ania Borkusewicz

23/02/2021

14 minutes to read

This article explores both offline and online responses to the Homofobus protest van in Poland and how these responses interact.