The Communicative Architecture of Policing: Community, Power & Legitimacy in the Age of ’New Media’

Based on nearly a decade of research on police-media relations, and the first to undertake a deep ethnography of police communications and local news media in a single policing area, this book charts the emergence of an empowered professional police communicator class in policing rooted in the mass communications potential of social media.

Cian Ó Concubhair is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Maynooth University’s School of Law & Criminology. Cian researches across criminal law, policing, and media, with a particular focus police legitimacy, police-media relations and the politics of criminal justice.