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Social Media and High-Profile Trials
Stephanie Olsen
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celebrity defendant
famous lawyers
race and gender aspects
live coverage of the courtroom
Perfect Mix
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Sex
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
MenWomen
None regularly read a newspaper, but eight
regularly watch tabloid TV shows
OJ Simpson Jury
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Women Defenders and Public Opinion
Women are a rarity
Persecuted in the media more harshly then men
Usually portrayed as the Virgin or the Whore
Mothers are persecuted harshly
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First Social Media Post
“Daughter who stole money, lots of money
and doesn’t her mother now speak to the baby that her mother raised”
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Live Twitter stream gave outsiders access to the trial
@NinthCircuitFL
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Guilty Before Proven Innocent
2007- Social Media exploded in popularity
Italian press painted a negative image
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Tweets from the Courtroom
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Is Social Media a Problem?
• Make Jury Selection Difficult
• Defendants have to appeal to two courts
• No Direct Link to Verdicts
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Sources(2011) Amanda Knox Free: Twitter reactions to Appeals Verdict. Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/03/amanda-knox-verdict-twitter-reactions_n_992932.html#s386062&title=Julianne_Grillo. Brown, W. J., Duane, J. J., Fraser, B. P. (1997). Media coverage and public opinion of the O.J. Simpson Trial: Implications for the criminal justice system. Communication Law and Policy. Cloud, J. (2011). How the Casey Anthony Murder Case Became the Social-Media Trial of the Century. Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2077969,00.html. CNN Wire Staff. (2011). Timeline: Amanda Knox Trial. CNN. Retrieved fromhttp://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/world/europe/italy-amanda-knox-timeline/index.html. Fantz, A. (2011). No End to Knox as a Pop Culture Obsession. CNN World. Retrieved from http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-03/world/world_europe_knox-obsession-continues_1_foxy-knoxy-amanda-knox-meredith-kercher?_s=PM:EUROPE. Fox, R. L., Sickel, R. W., & Steiger, T. L. (2007). Tabloid justice: criminal justice in an age of media frenzy (2. ed.). Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers. Gabriel, R. (2011). American Justice or American Idol? Two Trial and Two Verdicts in the Casey Anthony Case. Retrieved from http://www.thejuryexpert.com/2011/07/american-justice-or-american-idol-two-trials-and-two-verdicts-in-the-casey-anthony-case/. Hughes, S.A. (2011). Casey Anthony and the Media Coverage of her Appearance. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/casey-anthony-and-the-media-coverage-of-her-appearance/2011/06/02/AGXsTJMH_blog.html. Hull, S. (2011). Amanda Knox Verdict: How Facebook and YouTube Created Foxy Knoxy. The Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/09/30/amanda-knox-verdict-how-f_n_988847.html. Jewkes, Y. (2011). Media and Crime. London: SAGE.
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Jewkes, Y. (Ed.) (2009). Crime and Media. Los Angeles: SAGE. Mitchell, A., Purcell, K., Rainie, L. & Rosenstiel, T. (2011). Part 5: The role of the Internet. PewInternet. Retrieved from http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Local-news/Part-5.aspx?view=all. (2011, July 5). Social Media’s Influence on the Casey Anthony Trial. Retrieved from http://blog.thenetimpact.com/2011/07/social-media%E2%80%99s-influence-on-the-casey-anthony-trial/. Thielking, M. (2011). Five Trials by Media. http://northbynorthwestern.com/story/trial-by-media/ Vreeland, E. (2011). LIVE: Amanda Knox Verdict- Reports Live from the Courtroom via Twitter. Hudson Horizons. Retrieved from http://blog.hudsonhorizons.com/Article/Amanda-Knox-Verdict.html.
Sources Continued…
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Slide 5: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/simpson/jurypage.html
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Slide 7: jessicaspraggins.wordpress.com/2011/05/31/cindy-anthonys-myspace-post-july-3-2008/
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