Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of Digital Media

In a world where authority is increasingly performed, mediated, and judged online, policing now unfolds as much on screens as on streets.
Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of Digital Media examines how police agencies in Canada manage, use, and control social media as part of their public-facing work. Christopher J. Schneider shows how shifts in information technology and communication formats have reshaped the institutional practices of policing, arguing that police engage...