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Cops on Camera Research Project
We are conducting a research project about police misconduct caught on video footage. We are looking for people who have been involved in filming police at protests and other events and who are willing to be interviewed about their experiences, and reflections on the uses/risks of video activism, for a research project by Monash university.
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- Nov 30, 2009
Our names are Dean Wilson and Tanya Serisier, from the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University. We are involved in a project conducting research into the use of video and imaging technology to monitor police conduct. This project examines the capacity of various media technologies to function as forms of ‘counter-surveillance’ rendering the actions of the police visible and transparent. It is specifically concerned with the impacts of visual technologies on police accountability, occupational culture and public status. The circulation of such footage might expose misconduct but could also stimulate fresh tactics of evasion and concealment from state authorities. This project will make an important contribution to our understanding of how police accountability might be fostered through public initiatives.
We are looking for research participants who are willing to be interviewed about their experiences with filming police. Participation in the research is entirely voluntary. You may withdraw at any time during the interview. You may also withdraw your participation at any time during the life of the project. If you withdraw your interview data will be erased and will not be used in the project in any way. Participation will take approximately one hour and will involve talking about your role in relation to working with victims of crime and/or marginalised groups in Victoria. Participating in this research should not generate any benefit or negative consequence for you personally.
The research will focus on your experience with visual images of police conduct, and how you see these as significant or otherwise in making police practice transparent to public scrutiny. The results of this research will be published as a journal article, and will also form part of a larger book length study of policing and visual images.
If you do not wish to be identified, you can remain anonymous and will only be identified by a pseudonym which you are free to choose.
The interview will be digitally recorded and the records will be kept on a password-protected computer file. Only the researchers will have access to this information. The recordings will be kept for five years and then destroyed.
If you have any questions, or are interested in participating, please contact Tanya Serisier at tanya.serisier@arts.monash.edu.au.
