Roundtable: Crime Refracted?: Online Deviance in the New Platform Ecosystem

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

In June 2024, digital criminology scholars from around the world gathered at the University of Copenhagen for its 1st international criminological symposium, entitled “Crime Refracted?: Online Deviance in the New Platform Ecosystem”. At this event, presenters covered a broad range of topics including youth cyber offending, from hateful memes on social media to deviance within gaming environments. The aims of this roundtable are twofold. First, to share with the ASC audience some of the exciting developments that emerged from this event. Our second important aim is to open the floor for further discussions regarding the future direction of digital criminology and the refracted internet, upcoming publications and future symposia. Short presentations feeding into the discussion will be given on fraud, online hate, and digital drug dealing, all speaking to the development of cybercrime, digital drift, subculture and cultural criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area XIV. Roundtables

Individual Presentations

• Belonging to the ‘Darkness’: Dark Memes, Light(heartedness), and Post-irony to Express Subcultural Belonging - Alessandro Moretti, University of Copenhagen; Keith Hayward, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

• An exploratory analysis of youth involvement in online fraud - Thomas J. Holt, Michigan State University

• Informated Crime: Computer Crimes as Intellective Labor - Kevin Steinmetz, Kansas State University

• New Perspectives on Digital Drift – Accounting for Technologies of Personalized Affordances - Kristoffer Aagesen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology

• Looking Back and Looking Forward: Exploring the Reality of Fraud - Cassandra Cross, Queensland University of Technology

Chair

• Jakob Demant, University of Copenhagen

Discussant

• Keith Hayward, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Law

Organized by a Division or external group?

Division of Cybercrime (ponsored by Kevin Stinmetz)