RT Article
T1 Critical Social Media Analysis: Problematising Online Policy Representations of the Impact of Imprisonment on Families
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 68
IS 2/3
SP 235
OP 256
A1 Ugwudike, Pamela 1969-
A2 Sánchez-Benitez, Yadira
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1878566474
AB Drawing on the Foucauldian policy analysis framework developed by Bacchi (2009) and building on insights distilled from a study of discourses on the microblogging SNS, Twitter, this paper makes three novel contributions. It unravels how the impact of imprisonment on families is represented in or produced through policy discourses and other governance practices. It also demonstrates how SNS affordances enable affected families to resist and challenge the discourses and proffer alternatives strategies that can inform a transformational problematization model. The paper makes a third contribution by demonstrating how a methodologically innovative triangulation of computational and social science methods can be used to study the contributions of hard-to-reach populations such as the families of people in prison.
K1 computational criminology
K1 Digital criminology
K1 governance practice
K1 new media technologies
K1 Social networking sites
K1 social media analytics
DO 10.1177/0306624X221086559