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Policing and social media : social control in an era of digital media / Christopher J. Schneider ; foreword by David L. Altheide.
Van Pelt Library HV7936.P8 S38 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Christopher J., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police-community relations--Canada.
- Police-community relations.
- Mass media and criminal justice--Canada.
- Mass media and criminal justice.
- Police and mass media--Canada.
- Police and mass media.
- Social media--Canada.
- Social media.
- Police misconduct--Canada.
- Police misconduct.
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Lexington Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- This book aims to illustrate the process by which information technology and related changes in communication formats have affected the public face of policing in Canada. Schneider argues that police use of social media has altered institutional police practices in a manner consistent with the logic of social media platforms-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: media logic, policing, and social media
- Media formats and police social control practices
- Crime and society 2.0: police and social networking
- Facebook and the 2011 Vancouver riot
- Police presentational strategies on X/Twitter and Tiktok
- Police caught on camera: framing the death of Sammy Yatim
- Conclusion: policing on social media.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781666962741
- 1666962740
- OCLC:
- 1458547518
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