Inside the Digital Revolution

Policing and Changing Communication with the Public

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Bridgette Wessels

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In this work, Bridgette Wessels offers a unique insight into the ways in which core public institutions and powerful organizations develop digital communications and services within the public realm. The book draws on her ethnographic research with the London Metropolitan Police Service during their engagement in an innovative project to improve communication with the public using digital technology. As one of the largest, most advanced and highly respected police services in the world, working in a socially, culturally and demographically complex city, the Metropolitan Police Service offers a highly revealing case study of technology and the human processes which it is designed to serve. The ethnographic research is used to develop a new theoretical and conceptual framework for understanding the relationship between social action and technological change, addressing the way in which technology is socially shaped and culturally informed. The book also discusses the role of ethnography as a tool for researching complex multi-perspective, multi-sited networks of the innovation of digital technologies as forms of communication in late modern western society.

Author Biography:

Bridgette Wessels is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her writing and research focuses on the social and cultural dynamics of the internet and ICT.

Release date Australia

August 14th, 2007

Author

Bridgette Wessels

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

210

Dimensions

156x234x13

ISBN-13

9780754670872

Product ID

11373511

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