‘America, This is Your Ride Along’: High-Tech Policing, Transparency, and the Televisuality of Race
Published online on December 01, 2025
Abstract
Television & New Media, Volume 27, Issue 5, Page 455-471, July 2026.
This article takes the Reelz showOn Patrol: Live(OPL) as a case study for theorizing race, media technologies, police violence, and the discourse of transparency. I argue thatOPLengages with two meanings of transparency that are in tension: (1) ...
This article takes the Reelz showOn Patrol: Live(OPL) as a case study for theorizing race, media technologies, police violence, and the discourse of transparency. I argue thatOPLengages with two meanings of transparency that are in tension: (1) ...