Inside the Digital Revolution: Policing and Changing Communication with the Public

Wessels, Bridgette

ISBN 10: 0754670872 / ISBN 13: 9780754670872

Published by Routledge, 2007

About this Item

Offers insight into the ways in which core public institutions and organizations develop digital communications and services within the dynamics of everyday life in the public realm. This book draws on the author's ethnographic research with the London Metropolitan Police Service to improve communication with the public using digital technology. Num Pages: 210 pages, Illustrations, BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; JKSW1; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 457. . 2007. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Inside the Digital Revolution: Policing and Changing Communication with the Public
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0754670872
• ISBN 13: 9780754670872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.