The Communicative Architecture of Policing by Cian Concubhair - 9781032695679

The Communicative Architecture of PolicingCommunity, Power and Legitimacy in the Age of New Media\nAuthor(s): Cian Concubhair\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032695679, 978-1032695679\nSynopsis\nThe Communicative Architecture of Policing is a ground-breaking study of police communications and policemedia relations in the social media era. It is based on nearly a decade of research on policemedia relations, including two years of extended observational study in local newsrooms and police communications departments, and dozens of interviews with police communicators, chief police officers and journalists. This book is the first to undertake a deep ethnography of both police communications and local news media in a single policing area. It also provides an innovative theoretical reappraisal of the mechanics of policemedia power relations, grounded in ideas of legitimacy, mass communications and local governing pow.