INTERVIEW GUIDE FOR “@ONLINECOMMUNITYPOLICING”
Research Design and Data Collection
RESEARCH QUESTION
This research question considers: Whether online-community policing through user reporting can be an effective stratagem for countering online terrorism and violent extremism on social media websites? The hypothesis is that while community policing through user reporting can be a useful tool for fighting online terrorism and violent extremism; in order for this to succeed, there must be significant changes to the current reporting framework and the ways in which users’ reports are handled by social media companies and police organizations. Furthermore, while users’ may be in favor of participatory user reporting for policing online terrorism
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6) Do you believe that social-media users’ will do more to counter violent extremism/terrorism, if social-media websites were to promote the use of reporting mechanisms for countering terrorism/violent extremism online on social media websites?
Probe 1: If there were structural changes and it was promoted?
Probe 2: If there was not structural changes and it was promoted?
These next two questions are intended for respondents’ to weigh the utility of online community policing through user reporting, and to focus on the substance of corporate-public partnership restructuring to make online community policing through user reporting a useful instrument for countering online terrorism and violent extremism. Not only are these questions intended to collect data on the respondents’ opinions of this mentioned instrument, but also to obtain possible solutions for making the process more efficient or identify the appropriate level of
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They are also intended to gauge the respondents’ opinion on my hypothesis and proposed solution. The final question, relating to impediments on civil liberties imposed by community-regulation, is particularly intended to not only probe the respondents’ wider beliefs on the issue, but it is also intended to bring the conversation back to a generalized tone. It is expected that by broadening the conversation beyond community policing through user reporting, respondents’ will share any extra information that they believe would be seen fit to the topic of research. This is hoped to extend to a discussion on the legalities of regulation, and legal remedies used or could be used with changes in the frequency of user reporting and the removal of content on social media websites. It is expected that not all respondents’ will have expertise in the legal undertones of the issue; therefore, these questions were designed to be flexible rather than specific to regulatory law. These questions will contribute to my research by affirming or denouncing the usefulness of this type of community self-regulation, compared to the already existing (police) framework for CVE initiatives on social media