Bridgette Wessels

Inside the Digital Revolution

Policing and Changing Communication with the Public

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Produktbeschreibung

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 which, working in a socially, culturally and demographically complex city, offers a highly revealing case study of technology and human processes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780754670872
• ISBN-10: 0754670872
• Artikelnr.: 45540058

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Acronyms
List of Pseudonyms
Technical Glossary
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Problem of Defining 'Project Digital'
Chapter 3 The Cultural Dynamics of Technological Change
Chapter 4 Putting the Researcher in the Field
Chapter 5 The Cultural History of Programme Digital and Project ATTACH in the MPS
Chapter 6 Phase One of the Relations of Production
Chapter 7 Phase Two of the Relations of Production
Chapter 8 The Construction of a Digital Services Narrative at European, National and Regional Levels
Chapter 9 Narratives of Service Provision in the Metropolitan Police Service
Chapter 10 Participation between Service Providers and Residents
Chapter 11 Police Work and Everyday Life
Chapter 12 Conclusion