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This paper is a continuation and expansion of my book chapter ‘Something you wish you had never seen – Videos of death & murder on Facebook, You Tube and other media platforms’ (Noble 2017, pp. 241–252). It includes a number of incidents in which acts of violence and murder have been ‘livestreamed’ on social media. This paper will also discuss the motivations behind such actions and the evolution of criminals recording their deviant actions.
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Noble, W. (2021). Images of Violence and Atrocity in Modern Media. In: Owen, T., Marshall, J. (eds) Rethinking Cybercrime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55841-3_7
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