Policing's New Visibility

Goldsmith, Andrew

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“…Some have applied Goffman's framework to police presentational strategies on social media (e.g. Goldsmith, 2010;Schneider, 2014). We will return to this literature throughout this article as the findings of the present study are interpreted.…”

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(Re)presenting ‘order’ online: the construction of police presentational strategies on social media

Bullock

2016

Policing and Society

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Embedded in Goffman's (1959) concept of impression management and drawing on interview data this article examines cultural and organisational features which come together to shape how police officers construct presentational strategies on social media.The article explores how in presenting an image institutions and individuals must give engaging expression which concurs to a dominant cultural script whilst, simultaneously, avoid giving off expressions which threaten individual and institutional efficacy, reputation and legitimacy. In so doing, it is argued that officers face, and must come to negotiate, a series of challenges. This article considers the nature of these challenges, the ways that institutions and individuals have responded to them and implications for the construction of 'order' online.

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(Re)presenting ‘order’ online: the construction of police presentational strategies on social media

Bullock

2016

Policing and Society

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“…To date, however, there has been little empirical research examining how individual police officers relate to their increased camera visibility. Discussions about policing on film have instead tended to be highly speculative, focusing on the ostensible challenges cameras pose for policing (Goldsmith, 2010).…”

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Policing on camera

Sandhu

Haggerty

2016

Theoretical Criminology

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On any shift a police officer might be filmed by some combination of public or private surveillance cameras, including the cameras of individual citizens, activists, journalists, businesses, and a range of police-controlled cameras. This loosely coordinated camera infrastructure is part of the broader transformation of policing from a historically "low visibility" to an increasingly 'high visibility' occupation. This article reports on the findings of a participant-observation study of how police officers understand and respond to this transformation. We identify three distinct orientations, and highlight the multifaceted and contradictory relationship between police officers and cameras. The study raises questions about the extent to which camera technologies represent a straightforward way to "police the police".

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“…Andrew J. Goldsmith (2010) first applied John B. Thompson's (2005) conception of the new visibility to police.…”

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“…The prior section details the intellectual origins and social shaping of a concept that figures centrally in discourse about of policing's new visibility (Brucato, 2015;Goldsmith, 2010;Thompson, 2005). Transparency relies on a visibility produced by surveillance.…”

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The New Transparency: Police Violence in the Context of Ubiquitous Surveillance

Brucato

2015

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Media and surveillance scholars often comment on the purported empowering quality of transparency, which they expect participatory media to promote. From its Enlightenment origins, transparency is related to accountability and legitimacy: its increase is believed to promote these. It has earned a position as an unassailed, prime normative value in contemporary liberal and social democracies. Though still valued, transparency is undergoing change in an era of ubiquitous surveillance. Publics still anticipate governmental and corporate self-disclosure and for such entities to operate visibly; but increasingly, deliberate and incidental surveillance by a range of sources, both institutional and informal, documents the activities of such authorities. More often, civilians participate in producing or amplifying transparency. This article explores this new transparency through a study of U.S. police, focusing on the discourse of police accountability activists and cop watchers to describe how their work adapts traditional notions of transparency. Recognizing the resilience of the police institution despite the new visibility of its violence, the article challenges the presumption that increased transparency will promote institutional reform or crisis. It concludes with a critical comment on prominent expectations that promoting the visibility of police can protect publics and ensure police accountability. This conclusion has implications for other forms of the new transparency, including whistleblowing (e.g., Edward Snowden) and leaking (e.g., WikiLeaks).

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Policing's New Visibility

Cited by 243 publications

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(Re)presenting ‘order’ online: the construction of police presentational strategies on social media

(Re)presenting ‘order’ online: the construction of police presentational strategies on social media

Policing on camera

The New Transparency: Police Violence in the Context of Ubiquitous Surveillance

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