This article offers an exploratory account of press coverage of digitally mediated vigilantism. It considers how the UK press renders these events visible in a sustained and meaningful way. News reports and editorials add visibility to these events, and also make them more tangible when integrating content from social media platforms. In doing so, this coverage directs attention to a range of social actors, who may be perceived as responsible for these kinds of developments. In considering how other social actors are presented in relation to digital vigilantism, this study focusses on press accounts of those either initiating or being targeted by online denunciations, and also on a broader and often amorphous range of spectators to such events, often referred to as ‘internet mobs’. Relatedly, this article explores how specific practices related to digital vigilantism such as denunciation are expressed in press coverage, as well as coverage of motivations by the public to either participate or facilitate such practices. Reflecting on how the press represent mediated denunciation will illustrate not only how tabloids and broadsheets frame such practices, but also how they take advantage of connective and data-generating affordances associated with social platforms.

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面对数字暴民：在线寻求正义的新闻报道

本文提供了对以数字为媒介的警惕性的新闻报道的探索性说明。它考虑了英国媒体如何以持续和有意义的方式呈现这些事件。新闻报道和社论增加了这些事件的可见性，并在整合来自社交媒体平台的内容时使它们更加有形。在这样做时，本报道将注意力引向了一系列社会行为者，他们可能被视为对这些类型的发展负责。在考虑其他社会参与者如何呈现与数字警戒有关的情况时，本研究重点关注那些发起或成为在线谴责目标的媒体报道，以及更广泛且通常不明确的此类事件的观众，通常被称为“网络暴徒”。相关地，本文探讨了与数字警惕相关的具体做法（例如谴责）如何在新闻报道中表达，以及公众参与或促进此类做法的动机的报道。反思新闻界如何代表中介谴责不仅将说明小报和大报如何构建此类实践，还将说明它们如何利用与社交平台相关的连接性和数据生成可供性。