Social media, socialization, and pursuing legitimation of police violence

Every day, police departments across America are executing stops, summonses, arrests, and increasingly, tweeting. Although scholarship has focused on how social media democratizes news production and information sharing for activist movements, it has yet to explore how police leverage these attribut...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cheng, Tony (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 59, Issue: 3, Pages: 391-418
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
Journals Online & Print:
Drawer...
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Keywords:

MARC

LEADER 00000caa a2200000 4500
001 1782697306
003 DE-627
005 20240205111630.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 211221s2021 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.1111/1745-9125.12277  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)1782697306 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP1782697306 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
100 1 |a Cheng, Tony  |e VerfasserIn  |0 (DE-588)1317862694  |0 (DE-627)187967095X  |4 aut 
109 |a Cheng, Tony 
245 1 0 |a Social media, socialization, and pursuing legitimation of police violence  |c Tony Cheng 
264 1 |c 2021 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Every day, police departments across America are executing stops, summonses, arrests, and increasingly, tweeting. Although scholarship has focused on how social media democratizes news production and information sharing for activist movements, it has yet to explore how police leverage these attributes to advance institutional interests. I argue that, beyond digital surveillance or community engagement, social media provides police with the technological capacity to pursue both daily socialization of online audiences to their worldview and legitimation in the aftermath of contested police violence. I provide evidence by adopting a qualitative approach to “big data” sources analyzing 1) all 3,167 tweets posted by the New York Police Department in 2018; 2) the 778 Twitter replies to their most contested fatal shooting that year; and 3) a sample of 139 news articles covering this shooting over a year afterward. As public scrutiny toward police intensifies, social media represents an independent channel for police to publicize information unfiltered by traditional mass media. These findings have implications for police accountability and the episodes of police violence that do - and do not - elevate into national controversies. 
650 4 |a Legitimation 
650 4 |a Police violence 
650 4 |a Social Media 
650 4 |a Socialization 
650 4 |a Twitter 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t Criminology  |d Oxford [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell, 1970  |g 59(2021), 3, Seite 391-418  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)340877685  |w (DE-600)2066199-X  |w (DE-576)25810161X  |x 1745-9125  |7 nnns 
773 1 8 |g volume:59  |g year:2021  |g number:3  |g pages:391-418 
856 4 0 |u http://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12277  |x Verlag  |z lizenzpflichtig  |3 Volltext 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 4023695858 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 1782697306 
LOK |0 005 20211221152241 
LOK |0 008 211221||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-21-110  |c DE-627  |d DE-21-110 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-21-110 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a krub 
ORI |a SA-MARC-krimdoka001.raw