Social media strategies: Understanding the differences between North American police departments

Government Information Quarterly

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 343-350

  Meijer, Albert ^a   Thaens, Marcel ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Emergent strategies; Police departments; Social media; Transformational capacities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890157000     PISSN: 0740624X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.giq.2013.05.023     Document Type: Article

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