RT Article
T1 Social media and border security: Twitter use by migration policing agencies
JF Policing and society
VO 30
IS 10
SP 1138
OP 1156
A1 Walsh, James P.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1798334186
AB Social media are transforming public communication and state-society relations, dynamics distinctly visible in the domains of policing and order maintenance. Despite growing research on this relationship, scholarship has adopted an internalist optic, privileging social media use by domestic law enforcement. Using an original data set, this paper broadens the scale of analysis to consider Twitter usage by federal agencies tasked with border security and migration policing in Australia, Canada, and the United States. Despite new technologies’ transformational potential, its findings suggest Twitter is overwhelmingly employed for the conventional purposes of broadcasting information, managing impressions, and enlisting public assistance. Message themes linked with greater user responsiveness are also identified. The deeper implications of these findings and directions for future research are discussed.
K1 Twitter
K1 border security
K1 Impression Management
K1 Migration control
K1 organisational communication
K1 Policing
K1 Responsibilisation
K1 Social Media
K1 Australia
K1 Canada
K1 United States
DO 10.1080/10439463.2019.1666846