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Conclusion: Breaking Up and Breaking Down the Fight

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This chapter considers how social media have generated new modes of crime-watching and shaped the way we understand and culturally construct crime. Through doing so, I survey some of the key issues relating to the research of online crime-watching and antisocial media including, notably, the constantly changing architecture and algorithms of (anti)social media. With the rise of the Internet and other digital environments, I argue that criminologists must cast a critical eye on software and its role in shaping cultural understandings of crime. I therefore propose a critical criminology of software that might examine how the values inscribed into software have implications for the way we understand, perceive and respond to crime.

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Wood, M.A. (2018). Conclusion: Breaking Up and Breaking Down the Fight. In: Antisocial Media. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63985-7_6

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