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Shifting Securities examines changing relationships between government, media and multicultural publics in the UK. The Iraq War 2003 and subsequent events raise important questions about the impact of security policy on civil liberties and human rights, democratic participation and citizenship, and racialisation and securitisation. Our findings address the extent to which there has been a breakdown in trust between politicians, journalists and audiences/publics; what kind of revitalisation of democratic processes or media practices might help restore trust and credibility; and how audiences use and interpret the diverse, multilingual news menu available to them at a time of media transformation. ESRC Society Today - Final Shifting Securities documents available
Update: July 2009: Data is now publicly available from Shifting Securities. 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. This is rich data from an important period for security, legitimacy and multiculturalism in the UK. We would welcome researchers making use of it. We also invite opportunities for comparative research - contact M.Gillespie@open.ac.uk or Ben.OLoughlin@rhul.ac.uk.
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