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Whispered crime: ASMR storytelling and the digital domestication of violence

Crime, Media, Culture

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Abstract

Crime, Media, Culture, Volume 22, Issue 2, Page 454-461, April 2026.
This article examines the emerging fusion between the true crime genre and the ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) phenomenon, in which real-life crimes are narrated in a whispering, therapeutic tone. Drawing from a critical and transdisciplinary ...