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WLU Press

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 1974

📚 Education

📱 Media

Education • Media • Publishing

WLU Press is the publishing arm of Wilfrid Laurier University, focused on producing academic and scholarly works. It aims to support research and disseminate knowledge through a variety of publications that cater to the academic community and beyond. WLU Press also offers career opportunities within the publishing sector for those interested in academic publishing.

📋 Description

• This course examines all aspects of the public safety system from an organizational perspective and evaluates public safety organizations in the larger environmental context. • Students will analyse external organizations, public interest, and provincial and national policy and explore the changing and expanding role of the public safety system. • Current issues will be examined through case studies. • This course will examine the impacts of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on law enforcement and investigation practices. • Students will learn how to effectively communicate with the general public through social media platforms. • Students will be exposed to the current policies and legislation dealing with delivering sensitive information. • Conversely, students will be exposed to cultural criminal theories, critical Marxist theories and Foucauldian theory. • In addition, students will identify how real-time virtual public platforms allow law enforcement officials to discover, conduct and analyze evidence in solving online crimes. • Law enforcement officials will be able to use social platforms as agents of social control to assist in reducing the amount of online/virtual deviance, i.e., cyberbullying.

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s Degree • Significant work experience and/or research in a field related to course content, specifically in law enforcement, in particular areas of social media and the impact of technology upon public safety • Success in teaching online courses and should be receptive to pedagogical approaches that specifically embrace online learners. • Knowledge of learning management systems (particularly Brightspace from Desire2Learn) would be an asset.