Abstracts
Résumé
La multiplication des appareils captant des images de la vie quotidienne permet maintenant de visionner et revisionner ce dont on n’entendait que parler par le passé. L’intervention policière est un bon exemple : lorsque disponible, l’enregistrement des interventions controversées est présenté à répétition, scruté à la loupe et commenté par une foule nombreuse et diverse. Une recherche exhaustive n’a toutefois pas permis de trouver d’études empiriques portant spécifiquement sur l’effet du visionnement répété sur l’opinion relativement à une intervention policière. Se basant sur la recherche existante sur d’autres objets, le présent article vise à tester l’effet du visionnement répété sur l’opinion quant à une intervention policière avec emploi de la force, le genre d’enregistrement susceptible d’attirer l’attention des médias et donc d’être vu par le grand public, et de générer des commentaires polarisés et polarisants. Deux enregistrements ont été présentés deux fois à 78 étudiants universitaires, à une semaine d’intervalle, de façon que leurs réponses puissent être liées. Les résultats laissent fortement entendre que le visionnement répété d’une vidéo a un effet sur l’opinion qu’on s’en fait : les participants avaient une opinion plus favorable envers l’intervention à la suite du deuxième visionnement.
Mots-clés :
- Police,
- caméras corporelles,
- médias,
- revisionnement,
- biais de perspective
Abstract
The recent increase in devices that capture images of everyday life make it possible to view – and review – what we hear about the past. Police interventions are a good example – when videos of controversial interactions are available, they are closely scrutinized and commented on by a large and diverse audience, which is evaluating the situation in a much less stressful circumstances than those whose actions are shown. While there are, as yet, no studies that specifically investigate the impact of repeated viewing of videos of police interventions on opinions and attitudes, there are several relevant papers in the fields of marketing, psychology and communication. Using information from this previous work, we looked at the effect on opinion of multiple viewings of a police intervention in which force was used – the kind of incident that is most likely to attract attention from the media and therefore to be seen by a wider public and to generate comments that are both polarized and polarizing. Seventy-eight participants were shown a police intervention involving the use of force on two different occasions a week apart and asked to report their opinion about the intervention, using a format that made it possible to compare their first and second response. Our results strongly suggest that repeated viewing of an intervention has an impact on opinion : respondents had significantly more favourable opinions about the intervention after they had seen it a second time.
Keywords:
- Police,
- body-worn cameras,
- medias,
- rewatching,
- perspective bias
Resumen
La multiplicación de los aparatos que captan imágenes de la vida cotidiana permite ahora ver y volver a ver de lo que uno no podía sino oír hablar en el pasado. La intervención policial es un buen ejemplo : cuando está disponible, el registro de las intervenciones controvertidas es presentado de forma repetida, escrudiñado a la lupa y comentado por una numerosa y diversa masa. Una investigación exhaustiva no permitió, sin embargo, localizar estudios empíricos que traten específicamente sobre el efecto de la visión repetida sobre la opinión frente a una intervención policial. Basándose en la investigación existente sobre otros objetos, este artículo busca testear el efecto de la visión repetida sobre la opinión frente a una intervención policial con empleo de la fuerza, el tipo de registro susceptible de atraer la atención de los medios y, entonces, de ser vista por el público y de generar comentarios polarizados y polarizantes. Dos registros fueron presentados dos veces a 78 estudiantes universitarios, con una semana de intervalo, de forma que sus respuestas pudieran ser ligadas. Los resultados sugieren, fuertemente, que la visión repetida de un video tiene un efecto sobre la opinión que uno se crea : los participantes tenían una opinión más favorable de la intervención luego de la segunda visión.
Palabras clave:
- Policía,
- cámaras corporales,
- medios de comunicación,
- re-visión,
- parcialidad de perspectiva
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