Abstract
This chapter examines the intersections between crime, celebrity culture, and the changing mediascape in relation to the constructions of guilt and innocence associated with Amanda Knox (‘Foxy Knoxy’) in the Meredith Kercher murder case. Clifford situates these practices in the context of Knox’s online declaration of innocence—the SIAMO INNOCENTI tweet—published by Knox on Twitter in the fortnight after the Italian appeals court had reinstated guilty verdicts against her and former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. Clifford concludes that, whilst its aesthetic appeal and the conventions of the medium imply access to a more authentic or ‘real’ Amanda Knox, the persona constructed in the tweet was no less performative, stage-managed, or contestable than the identities constructed for Knox within legal, media, and publicity discourses before it.
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Clifford, K. (2016). SIAMO INNOCENTI: Twitter and the Performative Practices of the ‘Real’ Amanda Knox. In: Gies, L., Bortoluzzi, M. (eds) Transmedia Crime Stories. Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59004-6_5
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