The affordances and constraints of information in crime prevention communities through social media
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2024
Abstract
Social media can provide important and useful information to communities in their fight to prevent crime. However, this capability has its downside. For every affordance social media provides, the platform presents an equally important constraint, which researchers and the public often ignore. Using an in-depth case study of social media crime prevention communities in Malaysia, this paper intends to provide a rich understanding of the information provided by social media in crime prevention. The study adopts the technology affordances and constraints theory to make sense of and explain how the information provided by social media affords and constrains the communities' efforts to fight crime.
Keywords
Social media, Information dynamics, Crime prevention, Affordances and constraints, Facebook
Divisions
library,deptdecision
Publication Title
Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science
Volume
29
Issue
1
Publisher
Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya
Publisher Location
UNIV MALAYA, FAC COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECH, KUALA LUMPUR, 50603, MALAYSIA