ABSTRACT
Chapter 9 by Chris McCormick focuses on the use of a social media page as a resource to supplement traditional course offerings. Specifically, it looks at how social media is useful in connecting together an international group of scholars studying issues in cultural and visual criminology ranging from environmental activism to police violence. By participating in a social media group, participants are able to center a discussion from disparate sources and, thus, crystallize issues arising from and created in a public forum. The chapter includes some provocative posts and some inflammatory ones. It examines how issues of injustice, anti-police protest, and calls for social justice are mediated in an online space.
