2017 Couch-Stone Symposium Keynote Address: The Interaction Order in the Twenty-first Century and the Case of Police Legitimacy

Schneider, Christopher J.

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“…Media are a significant resource that provide meaningful social cues for individuals that influence how situations come to be defined, understood, and subsequently acted upon (Altheide 2000; Hannem and Schneider 2022; c.f. Perinbanayagam 1974), including the public acceptance of police as the legitimate authority (Schneider 2019). How situations are defined depends on how audiences interpret police accounts of their conduct, since “the definition of the situation ultimately lies with audience response” (Altheide and Snow 1979:19).…”

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Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media

Schneider

2022

Symbolic Interaction

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People offer accounts in response to actions that are subjected to valuative inquiry. Recordings of police actions captured on body-worn camera (BWC) video can become subject to valuative inquiry when footage is publicly released. This footage may possibly undermine police legitimacy. Managing legitimacy is a basic rationale for why police provide accounts in response to their conduct. Proponents of BWCs assert that the devices enhance legitimacy and, while police have long used accounts to justify their conduct, less is known about how body cameras affect police accountability in practice. Drawing from Scott and Lyman's accounts theory framework, this qualitative, exploratory study examines official police accounts as both outcomes of police accountability in practice and as provided in the context of news media coverage of publicly released body-worn camera footage. This allows us to ask the following questions: What types of accounts have police officials provided in news media reports in the context of publicly released BWC footage? And, more generally, what insight might an analysis of police accounts provide about accountability in relation to the implementation of BWCs?A key finding reveals that the timing of police accounts varied quite considerably, and that accounts were usually not static. The findings provide some general insight into what kinds of actions captured on body camera recordings constitute acceptable use of force by officers, even in situations when police actions resulted in death. This study also provides a small empirical window into when and how police officials provide accounts in response to publicly released body camera footage.

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Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media

Schneider

2022

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“…Billions of people now access the Internet, and Facebook has ballooned to an eye-bulging 2 billion monthly users. Most people spend at least some of their time on social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter in the mediated presence of other users, the effects of which in many ways parallel face-to-face forms of social interaction in terms of significance (Schneider 2018). In the late 1990s, it was somewhat taboo to arrange in-person meetings with individuals first encountered online.…”

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Review of Faltesek's Selling Social Media: The Political Economy of Social Networking

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2018

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“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

Hannem,

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2025

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How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video. Actor Evan Rachel Wood revealed in a 2022 documentary that she had been “essentially raped” by Manson in the video. Using qualitative media analysis, we collected and analyzed a total of 5466 user‐generated comments on YouTube posted in response to the “Heart‐Shaped Glasses” video after the publication of Wood's allegations. The research question that we explore is: How do users on YouTube understand the “Heart‐Shaped Glasses” video in light of Wood's allegations? Does the video depict a consensual simulated sex scene or is it documentation of a criminal sexual assault? Our analysis and findings reveal that users' interpretations of social cues provided in the video are subject to external forces of narration. Specifically, users draw explicitly and implicitly on both rape myths and on counter‐narratives stemming from the #MeToo movement to justify their support for Manson or for Wood, respectively. Media narratives about the “Heart‐Shaped Glasses” video and the user's orientation to the problem of sexual violence appear to be more salient social cues than the video footage itself in determining how commenters defined the video. These findings offer some insights specifically into how definitional processes, with respect to sexual violence, draw on socially established narratives, like rape myths or pro‐survivor activism. More generally, the findings provide a lens to consider how definitional processes operate in other kinds of situations in which the definition of actions recorded on video is contested. Video Abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo7qxmTwA‐U.

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2017 Couch-Stone Symposium Keynote Address: The Interaction Order in the Twenty-first Century and the Case of Police Legitimacy

Cited by 6 publications

References 26 publications

Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media

Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media

Review of Faltesek's Selling Social Media: The Political Economy of Social Networking

“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

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