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To find the article I used for class, I went to the UWT library page and clicked on the 'Start Research' button. From there I clicked on ‘Academic search complete’ and typed ‘surveillance’ into the first search bar and ‘study’ into the second. The words are pretty broad but I am unsure as to what I want to write my paper on so I thought those would be a good start. I then clicked the ‘full text’ and ‘Scholarly (peer reviewed) Journals.’ Next, I clicked search and it brought up over 13,000 articles. The first page was all about health related topics, so I went to the first 4 pages before clicking on the ‘research’ button. Since I still had over 1,000 articles I went back up and added ‘government’ to the last search bar. When that search also failed, I went back and deleted both ‘study’ and ‘government’ from the bars and added ‘watching’ instead. This finally brought up the article, “Who is watching over you? The role of shared identity in perceptions of surveillance.” The article is about how people view and accept surveillance. The authors research is about its perception, not about if surveillance is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ (136). They found voluntary participants in England for the first study and looked at their ‘perceived surveillance concern.’ They performed 2 different studies and decided that their needed to be future research to solidify their initial findings. The article is a very dense read with a lot of scientific terms. Ultimately, they are trying to find out how much it will take people to accept CCTV (Closed circuit Television) and when they will resist it, since it is perceived as being an invasion of privacy. The background they give on CCTV is extensive, the program has put more than four million camera’s around the UK and citizens can be seen up to 300 times per day (137).