Policing and Social Media
Social Control in an Era of New Media- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2016
Summary
This book investigates various public aspects of the management, use, and control of social media by police agencies in Canada. This book aims to illustrate the process by which new information technology—namely, social media—and related changes in communication formats have affected the public face of policing and police work. Schneider argues that police use of social media has altered institutional public police practices in a manner that is consistent with the logic of social media platforms. Policing is changing to include new ways of conditioning the public, cultivating self-promotion, and expanding social control. While each case study presented here focuses on a different social media platform or format, his concern is less with the particular format per se, as these will undoubtedly change, and more with developing suitable analytical and methodological approaches to understanding contemporary policing practices on social media sites.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2016
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4985-3371-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4985-3372-0
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 159
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- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Foreword No access
- Preface No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
- Chapter One: Media Formats and Police Social Control Practices No access Pages 13 - 32
- Chapter Two: Crime and Society 2.0 No access Pages 33 - 54
- Chapter Three: Facebook and the 2011 Vancouver Riot No access Pages 55 - 80
- Chapter Four: Police Presentational Strategies on Twitter No access Pages 81 - 98
- Chapter Five: Police Caught on Camera No access Pages 99 - 122
- Conclusion No access Pages 123 - 134
- Bibliography No access Pages 135 - 152
- Index No access Pages 153 - 158
- About the Author No access Pages 159 - 159





