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Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction: Understanding trial by media and participatory justice in a networked world (Lieve Gies).- Part I: Legacy media and the court of public opinion.- Chapter 2. Websleuthing before the web? Pre-digital sleuthing in public writing about Australia's dingo baby case (Belinda Middleweek).- Chapter 3. Trial by film: Cases and causes in popular legal culture (Stefan Machura).- Chapter 4. Between a rock and a hard place: Israel's courtroom journalists in the digital age (Anat Peleg).- Part II: Social media and the perils of amateur sleuthing.- Chapter 5. The complexities of trial by social media: Examining the connection between self-exposure and harassment (Azi Lev-on).- Chapter 6 A gendered media spectacle for the digital era: Nicola Bulley, missing white woman syndrome' and middle-class, middle-aged, menopausal womanhood on trial (Tanya Horeck and Deborah Jermyn).- Chapter 7 Playing their own private detectives: Digital witnessing, forensic fandom and true crime narratives (Bethan Jones and Steff El Madawi).- Part III: Media campaigns for justice.- Chapter 8. How we brought down a war criminal: Defamation trials as an alternative space for justice (Maria Rae).- Chapter 9. The paradox of true crime podcasting: Advocacy, prejudice, and the pursuit of justice (Katrina Clifford).- Chapter 10. When is trial by media not trial by media?: Seeking justice for Sanda Dia in post-Dutroux Belgium (Lieve Gies).- Part IV: Impacts of trial by media.- Chapter 11. The impact of media publicity on the presumption of innocence (Maria Stoyanova).- Chapter 12. The critical-forensic linguistic interface and the Spectrum of Trial by Media: Media-made sexual assault in the courtroom (Simon Statham).- Chapter 13. Publicity and legitimacy of public international law: The role of media in international legal proceedings (Paolo Vargiu).
