December 30, 2024 Editor｜Xu Tangyong Issue 1220, SDG4 Quality Education, Crime Prevention Department
[News from this Journal] The Department of Criminal Justice
and Comparative Criminal Justice Research Center of the School of Social Sciences of Ming Chuan University invited Dr. Michael Vaughn, professor of the Department of Criminal Justice of Sam Houston State University in the United States, to visit the school on 12/17 to “How Federal Prosecutors Used Social Media to Prosecute the Capitol Insurrectionists” gave a special speech.
The speech that day was hosted by Dean Huang, Fu-Yuan ,the School of Social Sciences. Director Chang, Kuang-Ming of the the Department of Criminal Justice , Visiting Professor Chuen-Jim Sheu , and Assistant Professor Lu, YiFen attended the lecture. It attracted more than 80 teachers and students to participate. Professor Vaughn brought novel topics in criminal justice research in recent years to discuss During the 2021/1/6 Capitol riots in the United States, federal prosecutors used information on social media to prosecute the Capitol rioters.
Professor Vaughn pointed out that the so-called “mediascape” has emerged in the past 10 years, which is a collection of media that produces information and distributes images through ever-expanding digital technologies. Today’s “crime stories” and crime control are no longer just presented by words, but images also convey rich information. Therefore, how to identify image information and the meaning of media image construction are increasingly important to criminology scholars. Criminology scholars should Familiar with the research methods of visual criminology, through interpreting image information, dismantling the connection between the unreality of media-constructed values and social norms in real society.
He mentioned that the world is already a place where “the online world writes the street society, and the street society writes the online world.” There is no clear linear sequence between them, but an ever-changing interaction between reality and fiction, fact and fiction, encouraging crime. Scholars develop and apply novel research methods in response to the information patterns in the technological era.