Trial by Media

Lieve Gies is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester, UK. She specialises in media representations of the law and the legal system. Her research is highly interdisciplinary, straddling socio-legal studies, criminology, media and cultural studies. She published Transmedia Crime Stories: The Trial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the Globalised Media Sphere (Palgrave, 2016).

• Chapter 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).