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Simon Hobbs

 Dr Simon Hobbs is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research areas include true crime, extreme art cinema, fandom, and material culture. He is the author of Cultivating Extreme Art Cinema: Text, Paratext and Home Video Culture (2018). 


Dr Megan Hoffman is an independent scholar. Her research interests include crime fiction, true crime, popular culture and gender studies. She is the author of Gender and Representation in British 'Golden Age' Crime Fiction: Women Writing Women (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

#TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences

#TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences

This book offers the first book-length study of user-generated, social media-based true crime content. The book considers the large and varied true crime community, outlining their at times contradictory needs and desires, from those who wish to partake in acts of sleuthing and fannish behaviours, to those who seek spaces to articulate marginalised opinions and challenge ethically problematic practices.

#TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences

#TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences

This book offers the first book-length study of user-generated, social media-based true crime content. The book considers the large and varied true crime community, outlining their at times contradictory needs and desires, from those who wish to partake in acts of sleuthing and fannish behaviours, to those who seek spaces to articulate marginalised opinions and challenge ethically problematic practices.