Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Privacy and Closed Circuit Television Systems in Public Settings

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Author(s): Abram L. J. Walton (University of South Florida Polytechnic, USA), Sharon A. DeVaney (Purdue University, USA)and Darrel L. Sandall (Purdue University, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 21
Source title: User Perception and Influencing Factors of Technology in Everyday Life
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Anabela Mesquita (ISCAP/IPP and Algoritmi Centre, University of Minho, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1954-8.ch009

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This qualitative study used grounded theory to examine how university graduate students felt about closed circuit television (CCTV) as it relates to the privacy and safety of students on campuses. As a result of violence at a few universities, more administrators are considering the implementation of CCTV systems. Because graduate students are an important part of the university population, their views were solicited. A qualitative approach was used because of the lack of previous research on this particular topic. Themes that emerged from interviews with 10 graduate students at a large Midwestern land-grant university were identified as: right to safety, right to privacy, personal privacy responsibilities, post-CCTV sense of privacy, post-CCTV sense of safety, crime displacement, false sense of safety, and international perspectives. The findings provide insight into graduate students’ perceptions of a CCTV system and have implications for implementation decisions regarding such a system. Additionally, the findings were utilized to formulate hypotheses for a larger scale research project.

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