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Kiana Tipton 2018 The Thesis Committee for Kiana Tipton Certifies that this is the approved version of the following Thesis:
Recording the Movement: The Role of Citizen-Generated Videos in Perceptions of Police and Police Use of Deadly Force
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Samuel Craig Watkins, Supervisor
Wenhong Chen Recording the Movement: The Role of Citizen-Generated Videos in Perceptions of Police and Police Use of Deadly Force
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Kiana Tipton
Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Master of Arts
The University of Texas at Austin May 2018 Dedication
To my dad, who has been a victim of the very system that supposedly set us free- I know you are trying- this research is for you. Acknowledgements
First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Professor, and friend, Craig Watkins for being a mentor to me over the last two years and going out of his way to make sure I felt like I belonged in the intimidating space of academia. Thank you for believing in and encouraging me. I would also like to thank Professor Chen for her patience and kindness over the past two years, and introducing me to the scary but fulfilling research of social networks and quantitative analysis. To Jennifer McClearen, I am so happy I had the opportunity to take two of your classes in your time at UT. You enriched my experience here, and I feel so lucky to have learned from you. I want to thank my cohort for their support, laughs, and encouragement, especially Chloe Gilke and Andrew Craig, I can’t wait to watch you each kill it out there. To my mom, who put her life on hold so I could have more than she ever had, I hope this makes you and the twins proud. And finally, I want to give a huge shoutout myself. Because anyone who romanticizes the writing process is a liar. This has been the most exhausting commitment I have ever made, but I am so proud of the work I produced here, and the person I have become along the way.