Video Remixing in Online Communities:
A Research Study

Web-based consent form

You are being asked to be a volunteer in a research study.

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to study Internet video remixing communities in terms of how people gather video material, edit it, and conceive of themselves as creators/authors in the process. We hope to learn more about experiences and motivations of participants as well as their practices. This study may help us design new tools or systems to better support remixing communities over the Internet.

Procedures

If you decide to be in this study, your part will involve:

• Consenting to an interview to be conducted via telephone, in person, or through e-mail, that should take approximately one hour.
• The interview will be focused on your experiences as a participant in creative video remixing for an online community.
• In the case of face-to-face and phone interviews, the session will be audio taped. For electronic interviews, a transcript of the session will be saved for future reference.

Risks/Discomforts

The following risks/discomforts may occur as a result of your participation in this study:

There are no foreseeable risks or discomforts in this study. The risks involved are no greater than those involved in daily activities such as speaking on the telephone or using e-mail.

Benefits to you

The following benefits to you are possible as a result of being in this study:

You are not likely to benefit in any way from joining this study. However, participation in this study will contribute to our understanding of video remixing in online communities.

Compensation to you

There is no compensation for participation.

Confidentiality

The following procedures will be followed to keep your personal information confidential in this study:

In our publications, we may wish to refer to your interview data or quotes from things you have written online. To protect your confidentiality, we will substitute a fake pseudonym for your real name. In the case of quotes from things you have done online (such as blog entries, forum posts, etc), this disguise could be vulnerable – a determined and skillful person could potentially break it. Since many online sites are open to the world, search engines (i.e. Google) index them. As such, a person could take a quote and use a search engine to find the actual page, thereby breaking the pseudonym disguise. We do not anticipate that this research will uncover sensitive information, but in case it does, we will omit direct quotes that could be found in a search engine.

In addition, we may wish to refer to a creative project in which you participated. This has important implications for your confidentiality. If your name is associated with this project on the web or elsewhere, it may be possible for a person to connect your name with your interview statements about this project.

The data that is collected about you will be kept private to the extent allowed by law. To make sure that this research is being carried out in the proper way, the Georgia Institute of Technology IRB will review study records. The Office of Human Research Protections may also look at study records.

In the case of electronic communications and web-based consent, you should be aware, however, that the experiment is not being run from a "secure" https server of the kind typically used to handle credit card transactions, so there is a small possibility that responses could be viewed by unauthorized third parties (e.g., computer hackers).

Costs to you

There are no costs to you, except for your time.

In case of injury/harm

If you are injured as a result of being in this study, please contact Dr. Irfan Essa at telephone (404) 894-6856. Neither the Principal Investigator nor Georgia Institute of Technology have made provision for payment of costs associated with any injury resulting form participation in this study.

Subject rights

• Your participation in this study is voluntary. You do not have to be in this study if you don't want to be.
• You have the right to change your mind and leave the study at any time without giving any reason, and without penalty.
• Any new information that may make you change your mind about being in this study will be given to you.
• You will be given a copy of this consent form to keep.
• You do not waive any of your legal rights by signing this consent form.

Questions about the study or your rights as a research subject

• If you have any questions about the study, you may contact Dr. Irfan Essa, at telephone (404) 894-6856.
• If you have any questions about your rights as a research subject, you may contact Ms. Melanie Clark, Georgia Institute of Technology at (404) 894-6942.

Consent to participate

1	Have you read the information on this page and do you agree to participate? (Select one.) I have read and understand this information and agree to participate. I do not want to participate.
2	Please provide your email address. This is required to confirm your identity. We will not use your email address for any purpose other than to contact you regarding this study.	Your email address
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