Reading the riots: what were the police doing on Twitter?

Policing and Society

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 413-436

  Procter, Rob ^a   Crump, Jeremy ^b   Karstedt, Susanne ^c   Voss, Alex ^d   Cantijoch, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CISCO SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

big data; policing; riots; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876053715     PISSN: 10439463     EISSN: 14772728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2013.780223     Document Type: Article

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