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Q Explores Expanded Police Use of Social Media for 5-27-14

TODAY on "Q" 

-- TANYA TAGAQ is an Inuk  throat singer who has collaborated with the likes of Bjork and the Kronos Quartet. She talks about her latest solo album "Animism" and how its theme of our connection to the animal world squares with her recent involvement in the "#sealfie" campaign in support of the controversial indigenous seal hunt.

-- Recently, a police department in Maryland received quite a bit of backlash after announcing it would be live-tweeting a prostitution sting. Jian talks to University of Guelph sociology professor  PATRICK PARNABY about how more and more police departments across North America are expanding their use of social media and what lessons are to be learned when it backfires.