Whispered crime: ASMR storytelling and the digital domestication of violence
Published online on September 10, 2025
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 ...
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 ...