“…paradoxical relationship that media publicity appeals for missing persons have on social media…
we want super high exposure, want super high levels of dissemination. But at the same time, we’re trying to safeguard that missing individual.”
Simona Ciobotaru
Description
In this episode we talk to Somona Ciobotaru, Senior Lecturer in Cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth about the complex issue of media bias on missing person cases. Research has shown that media has been bias to highlighting white women who are missing then others. We discuss why and how we can help to change it?
Guest
Simona Ciobotaru
Simona Ciobotaru is the Course Leader for the BSc (hons) Criminology and Cybercrime at the University of Portsmouth full time campus based undergraduate degree and a Lecturer in Cybercrime. Her PhD explored the impact and effectivenss of using social media based publicity appeals in the search for missing persons. She is a member of Centre for the Study of Missing Persons and the Cybercrime Awareness Clinic. She recieved by Bachelors of Science in Psychology from DePaul University (Chicago, Illinois) in 2011 where she focused on community psychology and substance misuse. She then completed her MSc in Criminology and Psychology from the University of Portsmouth where she analysed the importance of recovery capital in recovery using an Ego-Network approach. She also sits across the deparmental and faculty ethics comittee and is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).