Shifting Securities project data now available
Data from my colleague Ben O’Loughlin and colleagues’ ESRC-funded project, Shifting Securities: News Cultures Before and Beyond the 2003 Iraq War are now publicly available. This qualitative study includes approximately 145 interviews, focus groups and ethnographic reports with news publics in different UK cities, and 30 interviews and focus groups with military and government policymakers, BBC and Channel 4 newsmakers, and various security “elites”, from 2004-2007. To request access to the data, click here for the project page at the UK Data Archive (note: you need an account). This is rich data from an important period for security, legitimacy and multiculturalism in the UK.
Ben and Marie Gillespie welcome researchers making use of it. They also invite opportunities for comparative research (contact M.Gillespie@open.ac.uk or Ben.OLoughlin@rhul.ac.uk).
[via the New Political Communication Unit blog.]
Extremely promising site.
The best I’ve seen of these types of applications, with an excellent team of political scientists behind it.
Good for shock value. Ties in with what Joe Rospars reveals in his public presentations.
Only permits crawling of one’s own network, in accordance with the FB terms of use.
