The Use of Twitter by Police Officers in Urban and Rural Contexts in Sweden

Ceccato, Vânia; Solymosi, Réka; Müller, Oskar

doi:10.1177/10575677211041926

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“…It may give the impression that many people agree on the issue at hand. In a pandemic and rapidly developing situation, it can become unclear whether a communication is official or unofficial -from public or private people (see Ceccato and Petersson, 2021;Ceccato, Solymosi and Müller, 2021). This is particularly challenging in smaller communities, in which the responsibilities, capacities and capabilities of actors are mixed to a greater extent than in cities (Mols and Pridmore, 2019).…”

Section: Crisis Communication During a Pandemicmentioning

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Norwegian Rural Vigilantism during COVID-19: Self-Protection against a Perceived Urban Threat

Vestad

2023

IJRC

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When private citizens mobilise to protect their local community against threats, the rationale is that the local government is unable or unwilling to do so, due to legal restrictions, a lack of organisational resources and capacity – or indifference and discrimination. While these practises are commonly theorised as vigilantism, this conceptual approach draws in large part on studies of urban parts of the United States, Latin/South America, and the Commonwealth countries. This corresponds to a parallel knowledge gap in rural criminology, where there is little knowledge of so-called peripheral areas in the global north as well as a dearth of theoretical conceptualisation about rural vigilantism, and few studies cover areas outside the Anglo-American context. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork in 2020, this paper contributes to knowledge of vigilantism in the Nordics by providing a study on how Norwegian citizens mobilised to protect local communities from an urban pandemic threat, constituting a new form of rural vigilantism.

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Section: Crisis Communication During a Pandemicmentioning

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Norwegian Rural Vigilantism during COVID-19: Self-Protection against a Perceived Urban Threat

Vestad

2023

IJRC

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“…Differences in social media practices between urban and rural police have been investigated by, for example, Ceccato et al (2021) who assessed the content of Tweets from official and personal accounts in urban and rural contexts in Sweden to identify potential urban-rural differences. Overall, official rural accounts generated less engagement than the personal rural accounts, which Tweeted less frequently but generated more engagement.…”

Section: Rural Policingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Police and Criminal Justice

Ceccato

Abraham

2022

SpringerBriefs in Criminology

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Police engagement with rural communities on Facebook

Bullock,

Harkness,

Mellberg

et al. 2023

Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice

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Police organizations in Western liberal democracies are under increasing pressure to generate effective means of engaging with the communities that they serve. Established as a contemporary means of communication engagement, many police organizations have turned to social media to interact with citizens. A growing body of work examines the nature of public engagement with police social media. However, it tends not to differentiate by the features of place. This article starts to fill this gap by examining the effectiveness of the police use of Facebook as an engagement tool with rural communities, reporting on research conducted in the United Kingdom and in Australia. The aim here is to identify what type of content rural police Facebook pages are posting and whether certain post types and post-characteristics are associated with higher levels of engagement. We argue that certain characteristics of Facebook posts assist in gaining ‘cut through’ and thus effective engagement with rural communities. Implications for community engagement are discussed.

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The Use of Twitter by Police Officers in Urban and Rural Contexts in Sweden

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Norwegian Rural Vigilantism during COVID-19: Self-Protection against a Perceived Urban Threat

Norwegian Rural Vigilantism during COVID-19: Self-Protection against a Perceived Urban Threat

Police and Criminal Justice

Police engagement with rural communities on Facebook

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