Facebook and the Police: Communication in the Social Networking Era
Mari Sakiyama, Deborah Koetzle Shaffer, Joel D. Lieberman · Digital Scholarship - UNLV (University of Nevada Reno) · 2011
An increasing number of police departments are using Facebook to communicate with the public. As with any emerging communications technology, there is considerable variation in the usage of this medium. This study reports the results of a content analysis designed to determine how police departments are using Facebook.