Countersurveillance

Walsh, James P.

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“…By expanding capacities of media production and distribution, digital communications permit citizens to directly publicize issues and promote collective action. Typically this has been associated with amateur news-making and attempts to document injustice and promote transparency and accountability (Coleman and Ross, 2010; Walsh, 2019a; Yar, 2014), but scholars have recently documented opposing trends, where social media are appropriated to define and enforce public morality. As lay actors increasingly participate in the exposure and sanctioning of deviance, distinctions between the media, the public and moral entrepreneurs are blurring, ensuring that panics stem from unorthodox sources and display new discursive and interactional contours.…”

Section: Social Media As Instruments Of Panic Productionmentioning

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Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Walsh

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses the effects of social media – web-based venues that enable and encourage the production and exchange of user-generated content. Contra claims of their empowering and deflationary consequences, it finds that, on balance, recent technological transformations unleash and intensify collective alarm. Whether generating fear about social change, sharpening social distance, or offering new opportunities for vilifying outsiders, distorting communications, manipulating public opinion, and mobilizing embittered individuals, digital platforms and communications constitute significant targets, facilitators, and instruments of panic production. The conceptual implications of these findings are considered.

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Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Walsh

2020

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…While enhancing law enforcement initiatives to regulate criminal activities and cultivate public backing, social media platforms also pose significant hazards. In addition to the scandals associated with officers' online conduct (Goldsmith, 2015), the widespread availability of cell phones equipped with cameras enables the public to engage in surveillance of law enforcement activities, uncover instances of misconduct, and influence public discussions surrounding policing (Simonson, 2016;Walsh, 2019).…”

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Impact and Potential of Social Media in Policing and Law Enforcement

C. Nweke,

Anim-Wright

2023

JHASS

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This article aimed to examine the many effects of social media on policing and law enforcement, focusing on the complex and contradictory relationship between social media and these institutions. It also investigated the ways in which social media has influenced operational strategies, communication methods, and public views within the realm of law enforcement and policing. The study adopted a secondary data approach utilising journals, articles and books relevant to the study. The research findings indicated that the relationship between law enforcement agencies and social media is complex and ever-changing as law enforcement has progressively incorporated social media into its operations, utilizing it as a means of gathering information and communicating with the public. It also revealed that police agencies consistently employ a data-driven approach, which facilitates the acquisition of information pertaining to risk, hence assisting in case resolutions and augmenting evidentiary support. Based on the findings, it was recommended that law enforcement agencies actively participate in social media training programs that focus on responsible and lawful utilization of social media platforms for police purposes to proactively establish a presence on social media platforms in order to cultivate trust and cultivate positive relationships within the community. This research contributes to the existing body of literature by investigating the level of user involvement with social media posts originating from a law enforcement agency.

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Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)

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Baker

Frade

2022

Criminology & Criminal Justice

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As digital platforms that expand opportunities to create, distribute, and access content online, social media are transforming the policing landscape. While scholars have considered social media’s contradictory effects on police services’ public image and operational capacity, less is known about how patterns of technological use are reported within the mainstream press. Employing a mixed-methods content analysis, this article assesses how Canadian newspapers framed the policing-social media relationship over a 15-year period, and how such representations can affect public opinion and policy. It finds, despite minor fluctuations over time and across outlets, news organizations prioritized police perspectives and offered overwhelmingly favourable assessments with social media being constructed as a valuable tool of crime prevention and control. The broader implications of these findings for perceptions of law enforcement and relations between the news media and institutional power are provided.

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Countersurveillance

Cited by 4 publications

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Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Social media and moral panics: Assessing the effects of technological change on societal reaction

Impact and Potential of Social Media in Policing and Law Enforcement

Policing and social media: The framing of technological use by Canadian newspapers (2005–2020)

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