ACAP Learning Resources: SOSC3914 Deviance: Forum Discussion

Forum Discussion - Deviance in the Media 2025, T3

News on Google
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Search for the following article titles:
- Andrew Hayler (produced deepfake porn using images of friends)
- French dad’s sick ‘rules’ for 72 men who allegedly raped his wife while he filmed
- Adam Britton + dogs
- world's most modified man
- Meet Australian woman dubbed ‘world’s most tattooed doctor’
- Melbourne woman has spent $135k on plastic surgery – including five boob jobs
- Melbourne woman rejected from police force due to Pokemon, Disney tattoos
- "I’m unrecognisable after covering 95 per cent of my body in extreme tattoos"
- Cop paid $41K to leave job after OnlyFans account discovered
- On the edge: the psychology of the COVID rule-breakers
- Police flood Queen Vic Market after woman dragged from car at checkpoint
- Deviant's double life online
- How easy it is to become homeless
- 'Blatant drug use': Rainbow Serpent was 'hijacked' by organised crime
- Darren Mohr’s glamorous life before arrest in $360m cocaine bust
- Anne Hamilton-Byrne, The Family cult founder, dies in Melbourne nursing home
- Which embassies are the worst parkers? Russia takes the top spot
- Why is India the world capital for selfie deaths, and what's being done to stop it
- Elderly cancer battler convicted and fined over drug bust
- Deathmatch wrestling doesn't care who you are — but you better be prepared to bleed
- ‘Fictosexual’ man married 16yo hologram bride, but now struggles to bond with her
- Carly Findlay On Why Using Facial Disfigurement As A Halloween Costume Causes 'Hurt & Harm'
- ‘I felt pure, unconditional love’: the people who marry their AI chatbots

Try the following keyword searches on Google (normal Google not scholar):
Nitram + news
covid protests + news
throuple + news
Shamima Begum + news
ai chatbot companions + news

EduTV
A number of documentaries, films and news videos are available here.
If you're stuck:
- Louis Theroux covers many different forms of deviance in his documentaries - search for "Louis Theroux".
- 'You can't ask that' covers some interesting topics too - search for "you can't ask that".
- Stacey Dooley (UK) also examines interesting lifestyles/events in her documentaries. Search for "Stacey Dooley"
- 'A Current Affair' is an Australian news program that often covers forms of deviance, e.g. hooning, and is often criticised for sensationalism

Short film: Spider
Australian short film.
Short film: Cerdita (Piglet) by Carlota Pereda
Sara is an overweight teen that lives in the shadow of a clique of cool girls holidaying in her village. Not even her childhood friend, Claudia, defends her when she’s bullied at the local pool in front of an unknown man. Her clothes are stolen and Sara must get home wearing nothing but her bikini. The long walk home will mark the rest of her life.
Origin: Spanish language with English subtitles
WARNING: violent themes.
Short Documentary: The Hardcore World of Deathmatch Wrestling
In the world of wrestling, there’s nothing more brutal than a deathmatch: a fight where anything goes, and using weapons and spilling blood is the name of the game. New York wrestler Casanova Valentine runs a particularly hardcore circuit at the Tender Trap in Brooklyn, a bar where he and his opponents go at each other with barbed wire, fluorescent light tubes, thumbtacks, and garden tools, until there’s only one man left standing.
Origin: English (USA)
WARNING: violent themes ("You can't find anything this violent (and still legal) anywhere else".).
If you want to see an Australian example of deathmatch wrestling, search for the following words on YouTube.
Gweedo deathmatch
Gweedo is based in Victoria and he is involved in the local Deathmatch wrestling scene. Some videos may prompt you to log in before viewing.
YouTube
A number of short films are available on YouTube.
Short film: F*&king Bunnies
Do the following search on Google: fucking bunnies vimeo
Warning: this hilarious short film contains nudity
Language: Finnish (with subtitles)
Short Film: Three logical exits by Mahdi Fleifel
A sociological meditation on the different exits that young Palestinians choose, in order to cope with life in the refugee camps.
Origin: Arabic language with english subtitles and English.
WARNING: violent themes
Videonale Archive
Founded in 1984, the biennial VIDEONALE strengthened its position as one of the most important and renowned festivals of video art and time-based arts in Germany and Europe. This website is their online video archive.
VCA Film and Television Digital Archive
The online archive for the Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television program.
National Film and Sound Archive
The NFSA makes many of their archived audiovisual materials available for free online. You can search their catalogue or browse their curated collections.

Soft White Underbelly
Produced in the USA.
Click through a few of the stories and other stories load on the right hand side.
Stories include:
prostitute
gang member
hit man
corrupt cop
drug addict
porn actor
stripper
functional heroin user
hacker
anarchist
body transformist
Mafia/Mob Boss
and many more.