Christopher J. Schneider

Christopher J. Schneider
Born (1979-04-16) April 16, 1979
Chicago, Illinois
Residence Brandon, Manitoba
Nationality American
Fields Sociology, Criminology
Institutions Brandon University
Wilfrid Laurier University
University of British Columbia
Alma mater Arizona State University
Northern Illinois University
Northeastern Illinois University
Thesis Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Technology: Communication and Information Formats as Emergent Features of Social Control (2008)
Doctoral advisor David Altheide
Known for Research and commentary on social media, crime, policing, popular culture, qualitative research methods
Notable awards Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Early-in-Career Award 2016[1]
Website
www.chrisschneider.org
twitter.com/sundaysociology

Christopher J. Schneider (born April 16, 1979) is an American-born award-winning sociologist and associate professor of sociology at Brandon University.[2] Schneider's research and commentary have been featured in hundreds of news reports across North America[3][4][5] including the New York Times[6] and the Vancouver Sun.[7]

Educational background

Schneider received his B.A. summa cum laude in 2002 from Northeastern Illinois University, with a major in sociology and a minor in criminal justice. Schneider was selected as the NEIU 2002 spring commencement speaker [8] He received an M.A. in Sociology with a concentration in Criminology in 2004 from Northern Illinois University[9] Schneider continued his graduate studies in Justice Studies at Arizona State University. In 2008, he graduated from ASU with a Doctoral Degree in Justice Studies.[2]

Appointments and positions

While studying toward his M.A. he was an instructor at NIU. From 2004-2008 Schneider was a part-time instructor and a teaching assistant at ASU. After receiving his PhD in Justice Studies in 2008, Schneider began his career as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus where he taught for six years.[5] In 2014, Schneider relocated to Wilfrid Laurier University where he was granted tenure and promoted to the position of Associate Professor of Law & Society. He relocated to Brandon University in 2015 where he is presently an associate professor of sociology[2]

In November 2016, Schneider held the Public Visiting Scholar position in the Department of Criminology at WLU, a position offered to a scholar with "innovative research with public appeal".[10][11][12] He has also been invited to hold the Endowed Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice position at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The Endowed Chair at STU is "offered to a scholar with a well-established record of research." [10]

Schneider is a member of various editorial boards, e.g.,[13] including the Editorial Board of The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research (IJR),[14] Canada's only interdisciplinary journal of justice studies.[15] Schneider is a member of the Brandon, MB John Howard Society Board of Directors[16]

Areas of research

Schneider's research is qualitative and focuses on how developments in media and technology contribute to changes in social interaction and social control.[5][17] His book Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media illustrates the process by which new information technology—namely, social media—and related changes in communication formats have affected the public face of policing and police work in Canada.[17] Policing and Social Media has been well received by an array of critics that include academics,[18] police practitioners,[19] journalists,[20] and activists.[21] Policing and Social Media reached No. 1 on Amazon’s list of Hot New Releases in Canadian politics.[22]

According to a review in the academic journal Symbolic Interaction "This is an original and important contribution … this book’s theoretical contributions surely will influence future work across disciplines. Policing and Social Media is essential reading for scholars of media and crime … It surely would also appeal to anyone with broad interests in social control, social change, social institutions, and the sociocultural effects of new media."[17] In another review published in the Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles written by former police inspector Geoff Coliandris, a retired 29 year veteran of the South Wales Police and current lecturer at the University of South Wales in the International Centre for Policing and Security[23] "This book is timely and of major importance given the increasingly central role social media now occupies in global policing, governance and accountability discourses...As such, the book should be of urgent interest to a wide student, academic and professional readership, including those with a background in policing, science and technology studies, communication studies, cultural studies, criminology and sociology.[19] A review in Canadian news magazine Maclean's called Policing and Social Media "surprisingly populist".[20] Community activist and freelance writer Tom Sandborn[24] (in a review he wrote published in the Vancouver Sun), called the book "important" continuing "Schneider has done a fine job with this study, and anyone in Canada who cares about policing, privacy, civil liberties and personal freedom should read it"[21]

Schneider's work has focused on the impact of social media on crime related matters including vigilante justice[25][26][27] and crowd sourced-policing efforts online.[26][28] Much of this research has examined the role of social media in relation to the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup riot[25][26][29][30][31] Some of this research is cited in Policing Canada in the 21st Century: New Policing for New Challenges a 2014 Council of Canadian Academies report that addresses the external and internal challenges facing Canada’s police.[32] Other related research has explored the impact of social media on policing and police work in Canada[33][34][35][36] as well as police body worn cameras and the issue of police-leaked viral videos[37]

Schneider's research has also focused on popular culture and social control. Some of this work has examined the relationships between media and popular culture including the framing and censorship of rap music,[38][39] technology and control of student cheating,[40] the use of mobile phone ringtones as individual ways to manage identity[41][42] and audience engagement with music videos on YouTube[43] Other work in the area of popular culture has explored celebrity news coverage and TMZ[44][45]

Other areas of research include public criminology,[29] public sociology[46][47] and "e-public sociology"[48][49][50] a hybrid of traditional and organic public sociology. Schneider's co-edited book (which contains a foreword by Michael Burawoy) The Public Sociology Debate: Ethics and Engagement more broadly explores the practice of public sociology and moral judgements for sociologists concerned with social justice issues[51]

Publications

Books

Journal articles and book chapters

Schneider has published and/or presented more than 50 academic papers (i.e.., journal articles and book chapters). The following list of publications is a sample of his more recent work:

Selected journal articles

Selected book chapters

Selected awards

Selected addresses

Personal life

Schneider is a fan of the Chicago Cubs baseball team having thrown a ceremonial first pitch at a Cubs Major League Baseball spring training game in 2005.[68][16] Schneider is a cousin of American gay activist and author Dan Savage [69] He is a fan of all kinds of music especially heavy metal music and has interacted with members of Metallica,[70] Anthrax,[71] Hatebreed[72] and Pearl Jam.[73] He has an English Bulldog named Deuce.[16]

References

  1. ↑ Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (2016). , Research earns BU professor international award, invitations to visiting scholar and endowed chair roles.
  2. 1 2 3 Christopher J. Schneider, Faculty Arts Profile Brandon University. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  3. 1 2
    • Schneider, C.J. (2012). Interacting with News Media Journalists: Reflections of a Sociologist. In Phillip Vannini, editor, Popularizing Research: Engaging New Genres, Media, and Audiences, Peter Lang: 216-220..
  4. ↑ Christopher J. Schneider, Media, Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  5. 1 2 3
    • Altheide, D., & Schneider, C.J. (2013). Qualitative Media Analysis Second Edition" Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
  6. ↑ Jeff Z. Klein and Ian Austin, Hockey Hangover Turns Into Riot, New York Times, June 16, 2011. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  7. ↑ Christopher J. Schneider, Growing Up Out Loud - The Class of 2017, Vancouver Sun, August 28, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  8. 1 2 Christopher J. Schneider, Northeastern Illinois University 2002 Spring Commencement Speech, Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ Northern Illinois University, Department of Sociology, Our Graduates. Where Are They Now? Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  10. 1 2 3 Research Earns BU Professor International Award, Invitations to Visiting Scholar and Endowed Chair Roles, Brandon University, September 30. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Laurier Brantford to host public lecture on policing and social media, Wilfrid Laurier University, November 3, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ Police turn trigger fingers into twitter fingers, The Sputnik, November 16, 2016. Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  13. ↑ Criminological Encounters Editorial Team. Accessed May 2017
  14. ↑ Centre for Interdisciplinary Justice Studies Editorial Team. Accessed May 2017.
  15. ↑ About IJR Aims and Scope. Accessed May 2017.
  16. 1 2 3 Christopher J. Schneider, About Me, Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  17. 1 2 3 Schneider, C.J. (2016). Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media." Lanham, MD: Lexington Books | Rowman & Littlefield
  18. ↑ Wiest, J. (2017). Social Media and Media Logics Shape Policing in the Digital Age. Symbolic Interaction.
  19. 1 2 Coliandris, G. (2017). Book Review: Policing and Social Media: Social Control in an Era of New Media. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, Pp. 1-4. Sage Publications.
  20. 1 2 Brian Bethune, The Police vs. Social Media Maclean's Magazine, April 16, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  21. 1 2 Tom Sandborn, Review: Is Big Brother Your Facebook Friend? Vancouver Sun, July 8, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  22. ↑ Rob Henderson, BU Professor's New Book Follows Police on Social Media Brandon University, March 30, 2016. Retrieved July 8, 2016.
  23. ↑ Awan, I. and Blakemore, B. (2012). Policing Cyber Hate, Cyber Threats and Cyber Terrorism. Routledge (see contributor biography Geoff Coliandris, p. xii).
  24. ↑ Sandborn, T.. (2015). The 5-Minute Freelancer Q&A #20 - Tom Sandborn. Posted on April 22, 2015.
  25. 1 2
  26. 1 2 3
    • Schneider, C.J. & Trottier, D. (2012). The 2011 Vancouver Riot and the Role of Facebook in Crowd-Sourced Policing. BC Studies 175: 57-72.
  27. ↑ Tiffany Crawford, Online Vigilantes Can Slow Police Investigations, UBC Study on Stanley Cup Riot Concludes, Vancouver Sun, October 31, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  28. ↑ Sunny Dhillon, Stanley Cup Riot ‘Lightning Rod’ Goes Uncharged, Globe and Mail, September 25, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  29. 1 2
    • Schneider, C.J. (2015). Public Criminology and the 2011 Vancouver Riot: Public Perceptions of Crime and Justice in the 21st Century. Radical Criminology forthcoming.
  30. ↑
    • Schneider, C.J. (2015). Meaning Making Online: Vancouver's 2011 Stanley Cup Riot. In Michael Dellwing, Scott Grills and Heinz Bude, editor, Kleine Geheimnissee: Alltagssoziologische Einsichten (trans: Little Secrets: Everyday Sociological Insights), Springer, Germany, forthcoming.
  31. ↑ Nick Lewis, Social Media and the 2011 Vancouver Riots, ArtsWIRE, June 14, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  32. ↑ Council of Canadian Academies, 2014. Policing Canada in the 21st Century: New Policing for New Challenges. Ottawa, ON: The Expert Panel on the Future of Canadian Policing Models. Council of Canadian Academies (p. 31). Retrieved April 7, 2015.
  33. ↑
  34. ↑ James Keller, Police on Twitter Good For PR But Has Pitfalls, Huffington Post, June 19, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  35. ↑ University of British Columbia, Fighting Crime One Tweet at a Time, June 18, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  36. ↑
    • Schneider, C.J. (2015). Police Image Work in an Era of Social Media: YouTube and the 2007 Montebello Summit Protest. In Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs, editors, Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in an Age of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, Routledge: 227-246.
  37. ↑ Schneider, C.J. (2017). Body worn cameras and police image work: News media coverage of the Rialto Police Department's body worn camera experiment. Crime, Media, Culture 1-18
  38. ↑ Arielle Pardes, The Evolution of the Bitch, Vice, September 9, 2014. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  39. ↑
    • Schneider, C.J. (2011). Popular Culture, Rap Music, Bitch and the Development of the Censorship Frame. American Behavioral Scientist, 55: 36-56.
  40. ↑
    • Schneider, C.J. (2011). Constructing the Student Culprit. Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, 11(5), 434-445.
  41. ↑ Cathy Gulli, Help! My Office is Ringtone Hell, Macleans Magazine, January 21, 2009. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  42. ↑
  43. ↑
  44. ↑ Marsha Lederman, Is Chavril Our Own Brangelina Pairing? Globe and Mail, August 23, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  45. ↑
    • Schneider, C.J. (2012). Examining Elites Using Qualitative Media Analysis: Celebrity News Coverage and TMZ. In L. Aguiar and Christopher J. Schneider, editors, Researching Amongst Elites: Challenges and Opportunities in Studying Up, Ashgate: 103-119.
  46. ↑ Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher J. Schneider, Practicing Public Sociology, Global Dialogue 5.1, Newsletter for the International Sociological Association. March 2015. Retrieved March 29, 2015
  47. ↑ The Importance of Public Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University Spotlights. April 2015. Retrieved April 22
  48. ↑
    • Schneider, C.J. (2014). Social Media and e-Public Sociology. In Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher J. Schneider, editors, The Public Sociology Debate: Ethics and Engagement, University of British Columbia Press: 205-224.
  49. ↑ Schneider, C.J. (2017). $#*! Sociologists Say: e-Public Sociology on Twitter. Qualitative Sociology Review 13(2): 78-99.
  50. ↑ Schneider, C.J., Hanemaayer, A., & Nolan, K. (2014). Public Teaching as Service Sociology. In A. Javier Trevino and Karen McCormack, editors, Service Sociology and Academic Engagement, Ashgate: 177-190.
  51. 1 2 3 Hanemaayer, A., & Schneider, C.J. (eds) (2014). The Public Sociology Debate: Ethics and Engagement." Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia Press
  52. ↑ Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Early in Career Award, August 21, 2016. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  53. ↑ CUFA BC, Distinguished Academics Awards, April 3, 2013. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  54. ↑ UBC Okanagan Award for Teaching Excellence and Innovation, Past Recipients. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  55. ↑ UBC Okanagan Arts Convocation 2011 Teaching Award. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  56. ↑ UBC Okanagan, Public Education Through Media Award, Past Recipients. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  57. ↑ UBC Okanagan, Public Education Through Media Award. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  58. ↑ UBC Okanagan, Sociologist Receives Teaching Award. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  59. ↑ http://www.chrisschneider.org/teaching.htm
  60. ↑ Schneider, C.J. (2004). Integrating Critical Race Theory and Postmodernism: Implications of Race, Class, and Gender. Critical Criminology 12:87-103
  61. ↑ American Society of Criminology, Division on Critical Criminology, Graduate Student Paper Award. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  62. ↑ MSS Meetings, . Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  63. ↑ British Columbia Law Enforcement Diversity Network, Smile :) UR on Camera!. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
  64. ↑ Bishop’s University, Where is Sociology Now? Abstracts. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  65. ↑ Forum Hopes to End Fear of Homeless, Daily Courier, September 25, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  66. ↑ Crime Stoppers Provincial Training Conference Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine., May 12–14, 2011, Coast Capri Hotel, Kelowna, BC. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  67. ↑ Inside Okanagan College, News, August 3, 2010 Vol. 4 Issue 9. Retrieved March 28, 2015.
  68. ↑ Cubs Spring Training 2005, Twitter, 5 March 2005. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  69. ↑ Dan Savage, Savage Love: Libby, Schmibby - How About Those White Sox?, The Stranger, October 30, 2005. Retrieved March 28, 2015
  70. ↑ Photo with Kirk Hammett, Lollapalooza 2015, Twitter, 2 August 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  71. ↑ Photo with Charlie Benante, Lollapalooza 2015, Twitter, 2 August 2015. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  72. ↑ Photo with Jamey Jasta, Twitter, 22 July 2016. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
  73. ↑ Personalized Autographs by Eddie Vedder, Cincinnati, Ohio 2003, Twitter, 8 October 2015. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
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