“Porsche Girl”: When a Dead Body Becomes a Meme
Are online users ethically responsible for the memes that they view and circulate? What if those memes have their origins in a leaked forensic image of a dead body? What if that same meme is used to terrorize the victim’s family? “Porsche Girl,” the morbid meme based on the photographs of a teenage girl following a deadly car crash, demonstrates the vulnerability of “memeified” subjects as well as the ethical risks involved when sensitive content is disseminated online. Using the model of distributed responsibility... Читать дальше...