Police agency adoption of social media as related to agency size, community-oriented policing, and technological capacity

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dc.contributor.advisorRanda, Ryan X.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberWells, William M
dc.contributor.committeeMemberKing, William R.
dc.creatorCawley II, William Olen
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-10T19:26:04Z
dc.date.available2016-11-10T19:26:04Z
dc.date.created2016-12
dc.date.issued2016-11-10
dc.date.submittedDecember 2016
dc.date.updated2016-11-10T19:26:05Z
dc.description.abstractThis thesis uses LEMAS data and an original data collection to examine the relationship between the adoption of Twitter and Facebook by municipal police departments and the characteristics of those departments. These characteristics include the size of the department, progressiveness, community-oriented policing, and technological capacity. It was found that that these variables were associated with statistically significant increases in the amount of time a department had Twitter. All variables were also significant to varying degrees for lengthening the amount of time a department was on Facebook, except for community-orientation. These results appear to indicate that social media adoption by law enforcement follows a diffusion of innovations model. Directions for future research are discussed.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11875/57
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectLaw Enforcement
dc.subjectFacebook
dc.subjectTwitter
dc.subjectSocial Media
dc.subjectCommunity-oriented Policing
dc.subjectDiffusion of Innovations
dc.titlePolice agency adoption of social media as related to agency size, community-oriented policing, and technological capacity
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentCriminal Justice and Criminology
thesis.degree.grantorSam Houston State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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