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Entitlement to Tell on Police Facebook Sites
Zoe Walkington1, Graham Pike1, Ailsa Strathie1
1School of Psychology, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking
|March 22, 2019
Summary
Police use of social media, like Facebook, shapes their identity and community trust. However, public challenges to police narratives highlight complex issues of experience ownership and require resources for effective engagement.
Area of Science:
- Sociology of Policing
- Digital Communication Studies
- Criminology
Background:
- Increasing police adoption of social media platforms like Facebook.
- Limited qualitative research on social media's role in police identity formation.
- Need to understand online interactions between police forces and the public.
Purpose of the Study:
- To qualitatively analyze a co-created story on a rural police force's Facebook page.
- To explore how online police activity shapes Police Force identity.
- To investigate public challenges to police narratives and their implications.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative analysis of a popular Facebook story from a rural police force.
- Examination of the co-creation process between police and the public.
- Analysis of identity construction within online police-public interactions.
Main Results:
- Community actively challenges the police's entitlement to tell certain stories.
- Online interactions raise questions about ownership of criminal justice experiences.
- Facebook posts serve as a significant feedback channel for police forces.
Conclusions:
- Social media platforms like Facebook are crucial for police identity and feedback.
- Effective use of these platforms can enhance trust and community engagement.
- Realizing these benefits necessitates substantial resource investment by police forces.
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