1st Edition

The Digital Courtroom Participation, Attendance, Engagement and Consumption

By Lisa Flower Copyright 2025
166 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The digitalisation of courtrooms brings both opportunities and challenges to the judicial process, shaping our understandings of trials and their participants in a myriad of, at times, unexpected ways, and transforming how we participate in, attend, engage with, and consume trials. While digital tools offer potential benefits, they can also impact core aspects of judicial integrity, such as the... Read more

1. Introduction to the Digital Courtroom  2. Participation  3. Attendance  4. Engagement  5. Consumption  6. Spotlight on Sweden  7. Conclusion

Biography

Lisa Flower is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, specialising in a sociological approach to digital technologies in courts, the social construction of trials, and court ethnography. She is currently leading the ERC-funded “VIRTUTRIALS” project on virtual participation in trials.