True Crime
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Cheng / Flynn
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Exploitation
Rickard
Rosenfield
Jermain
About Consumers
Boling / Hull
Naseer / St. Aubin
Cheng / Flynn
Fathallah
Consumers have begun to have weird fascination with the content
Both these articles discuss how the popularity of true crime and how that has lead to the glorification of the gruesome content and the perpetrators. They discuss how people have become obsessed/fascinated with murderers/serial killers. Both discuss how (white) women love true crime.
Rickard
Rosenfield
- Discuss how true crime storytelling often exploits victims. They encourage audience to be mindful of their consumption, and have empathetic and responsible engagement with the genre.
All three of the authors discuss how the true crime genre exploits the victims of the crime, or whatever is being talked about in a documentary, podcast, tv show, etc. They want to encourage the true crime audience to have more of a empathetic and responsible consumption of the content.
Jermain
Boling / Hull
Naseer / St. Aubin
- Both articles discuss certain groups that lead to fascinations with the genre, what demographics are more likely to consume true crime media.
Both authors in this section discuss the demographic of individuals that are more likely to engage in true crime. Cheng and Flynn have the approach that a lot of the media discusses white women and offers the question that is why are people more likely to indulge when the story involves them. Naseer and St. Aubin give polls of what kinds of people consume true crime. For example, more women and less formally educated individuals consume the genre.