The ‘Making a Murderer’ Effect: Study
Netflix’s True Crime documentary ‘Making a Murderer’ has taken the world by storm, provoking its audience to take on the role of amateur sleuths in an attempt to uncover whether or not the central characters of the show are guilty or innocent. In the month following the release of the True Crime docu-series “19.3 million … Continue reading The ‘Making a Murderer’ Effect: Study
The ‘Making a Murderer’ Effect: Method
“Ethnographic methods are a means of tapping local points of view, households and community “funds of knowledge” (Moll & Greenberg, 1990), a means of identifying significant categories of human experience up close and personal” (Genzuk, M 2003). To begin my research into this topic I am going to start off by gathering and … Continue reading The ‘Making a Murderer’ Effect: Method
The ‘Making a Murderer’ Effect: Background
“By focusing on the informational dimension, I am attempting to critically examine the capacity of the digital sphere to provide an authentic picture of social reality constituted altogether by online and offline social spheres. Does the social reality presented online mirror offline social circumstances? How valid are the pieces of information retrieved online, … Continue reading The ‘Making a Murderer’ Effect: Background
