Inside the digital revolution
Subtitle: policing and changing communication with the public
By: by Bridgette Wessels.
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT USA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754670872
Subjects: Police communication systems -- Great Britain; Digital communications -- Great Britain; Police-community relations -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The problem of defining "project digital": making sense of digital technologies in police service environments; title: The cultural dynamics of technological change; title: Putting the researcher in the field: the performances and positions of the ethnographer in innovative networks of communication; title: The relations of production: police working with other agencies; title: Phase one of the relations of production: "kicking-off and the early days"; title: Phase two of the relations of production: "moving on and developing e-services"; title: The construction of a digital services narrative at European, national and regional levels; title: Narratives of service provision in the metropolitan police service: embedding telematics within service narratives; title: Participation between service providers and residents: local people's perceptions of services in the East End of London; title: Operational policing; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix:; title: The research methods and objectives of Newhaven focus groups; title: Bibliography; title: Index.