Book Review: Simon Hobbs, Megan Hoffman (eds.): #TrueCrime: Digital Culture, Ethics and True Crime Audiences

Authors

true crime, fan practice, participatory culture, websleuthing, dark fandom

Anne Ganzert, Philipps-Universität Marburg

Anne Ganzert is a media studies scholar and PI of the Emmy Noether research group “Web Sleuthing. Media Practices of Crime-Related Online Investigations” at Philipps-Universität Marburg. Previously, she coordinated the CRC initiative “Serious Gaming” and was affiliated with the Center for Human | Data | Society at the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on participatory culture, digital media practices, fan studies, seriality, and crime-related online investigations. She is particularly interested in the intersections of media theory, platform cultures, and contemporary forms of collective knowledge production.