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Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of Digital Media 2nd Edition investigates various public aspects of the management, use, and control of social media by police agencies in Canada. Every chapter in this 2/ed has been updated with contemporary examples and analysis.
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Drawing on fifteen years of experience that includes hundreds of print, radio, and television news interviews, dozens of published opinion pieces, and the use of social media for public engagement, Doing Public Scholarship outlines a practical, easy-to-follow approach to doing public sociology in media that consists of, and brings together, interrelated forms of media engagement. ORDER HERE
In Defining Sexual Misconduct, the authors trace contemporary shifts in power in relation to the increased recognition and censure of sexual misconduct. ORDER HERE
- Winner, Midwest Sociological Society’s Distinguished Book Award, 2024
- Honorable Mention, Charles Horton Cooley Book Award, 2023
- Short-listed, The Hill Times Best Books of 2022
Security and Risk Technologies in Criminal Justice takes students through the evolution of risk technology devices, processes, and prevention. This text unpacks technology’s influence on our understanding of governance and social order in areas of criminal justice, policing, and security. ORDER HERE
Policing and Social Media aims to illustrate the process by which new information technology—namely, social media—and related changes in communication formats have affected the public face of policing and police work. ORDER HERE
In this The Public Sociology Debate, which opens with a foreword by Michael Burawoy, Canadian sociologists continue the public sociology debate by discussing not only how and why they should do sociology but also how ethical judgments influence sociological practice and the evaluation of research. ORDER HERE
In order to prepare a successful research project, a qualitative researcher often must consult media documents of various types. Authors David L. Altheide and Christopher J. Schneider show readers in Qualitative Media Analysis how to obtain, categorize, and analyze these different media documents in this entry in the Qualitative Research Methods series. ORDER HERE
Presenting empirical case studies from Canada, the USA and Australia, Researching Amongst Elites explores the challenges and difficulties involved in conducting research amongst the rich and elite, whilst shedding light on the manner in which power is harnessed, protected and controlled to manage and manipulate resources. ORDER HERE