Do You Read Blogs? Do You Write a Blog?
by Sinéad
Irish Blog Research 2009, Survey Goes Live
As part of the M.Sc Cyberpsychology at IADT each postgraduate student is currently in the process of conducting a major research project. My own is focused on blogging, but from an Irish perspective, looking at the attitudes and behaviour of Irish bloggers and Irish blog readers. (Related Article)
Online Survey
At the very heart of this research study is an online survey which you can find here. I’m hoping to recruit a large sample of both bloggers and non-blogging readers. If you’re reading this, I’m assuming you fit into one of these categories and would very much appreciate it if you could spare 10-15 minutes to fill out the survey. Most of the questions are multiple choice, a small number are essay based but you can write as much, or as little as you like. This questionnaire is 100% anonymous, confidential and for research purposes only. Even your IP address won’t be stored.
Prize Draws!
At the end of the survey you will have the opportunity to enter a prize draw for either a €50 Amazon voucher or a €50 Ticketmaster voucher – if you win, you can choose either prize.
I’m also going to run a separate prize draw for another €50 voucher for anyone that posts a link to this survey on their blog, or on a messageboard – anywhere really! To enter this separate draw just leave a comment on this blog post, this can be in the form of a trackback or a comment telling me where you have posted the link.
Thank You!
Thank you in advance for your help, without the Irish blogging community on my side this research won’t be complete. The hard part will be finding non-blogging readers to complete the survey, so if you know anyone that would fit that category please pass the link for the survey onto them.
As a way of giving something back to the blogging community I will be publishing summaries of the most interesting findings here on this blog. If you would like to be notified when the entire research document is available for download – this will be a masters thesis of approximately 15,000 words, with an introduction to the psychogical aspects of blogging – you can enter your details on this form.
Comments
Prizes you say :)
That was interesting and made me think!
I found your site through the Geek Girls website. Maybe you should ask them to post a link through there. Is there an email list through that too?
I thought the survey was good, not too long (as you suspected in your tweet). You were wondering about the incomplete surveys. You might say to people ‘this survey is X pages long, it will take you approx X minutes to complete’.
Your course sounds really interesting. Can’t wait to read the results you’re gathering.
Also, there’s a call for submissions for EdTech 2009 http://www.ilta.net/
There’s a track on ‘New Learning Spaces’ I think this would fit in and spark some really interesting dialogue, if you’re interested.
@Lottie – prizes at the end of the rainbow :)
@Grannymar – Thanks for taking the time out to complete it.
@Heather – My thesis supervisor had actually suggested EdTech to me recently. I don’t really emphasis the use of blogs as a learning tool, but do discuss knowledge sharing and social capital. Do you really think this study would be applicable to the conference? :)
@sinead “knowledge sharing and social capital”, you just summed up life long learning, and the need for “new learning spaces”.
there’s v little ireland-specific data. about what is happening HERE. i think it would be v relevant!
Done and done! I hope you like the way I broke my free text replies into chapters and then volumes. I felt this would make them easier to read.
Really interesting survey, got me thinking indeed. I look forward to hearing the results so best of luck with it!
Shall do it now!
Thanks for filling out the survey guys :) much appreciated. Have had a huge response from bloggers, but not so much from non-bloggers. Working on it though.
Filling it at the moment.
Aaron
Gratuitously plugged.
Happy to do it. Best of look with the thesis.
OK – survey done. Some very interesting questions. Thanks to Darragh for bringing it to my attention.
All done. Looking forward to seeing the compiled results. :)
Thanks for filling out the survey everyone. Really pleased with the response rate so far, couldn’t have done it without all those wonderful retweets and links.
I don’t have time at the moment to fill this out but I’ll def give it a shot tomorrow, it sounds facinating, and I’d like to read some of the report too. I may be able to get my boyfriend to fill out the other survey as he is a complete non-blogger and kinda thinks I’m a little mad for doing it.
Is this the survey that I piloted for you, or a new one?
@Ruth Thanks for taking the time to complete it, and of course, pass it on to the boyfriend.
@Noel It IS the same one you piloted, thanks so much for that :)
Hey I did the survey and I also posted a blog about it
http://nicedaydesigns-ruth.blogspot.com/2009/01/do-you-read-blogs-do-you-write-blogs.html
I spotted the link on Ruth Crean’s site this morning and I went and filled out the survey. I really wasn’t very long at all. Definitely not the 15 minutes that I had braced myself for. I wish you all the best with your research and I added a link from my own blog.
http://magatha-may.blogspot.com/
Forgive my doziness…. I forgot to add the link. It’s still early.
Hi,
I’d love to help if I can. I write TheTannoy.com, a discursive space for digital news and views, targetting the digital ad sector. It’s for the digital ad agency NetBehaviour.com. The research, The Net Behaviour Report is carried out by Monitrack Internet Research. A recent post which might interest yourself or your reader could be listening to the blogosphere, which gives a newbies perspective on how to view blogs, for the non-techie ad man. You can read it at http://netbehaviour.blogspot.com/2009/01/listening-to-blogosphere.html, or read the whole blog at http://www.thetannoy.com
@Magatha Thanks so much for filling it out, and the link of course.
@Emmet I’m surprised I haven’t come across the blog before. I have subscribed :)
I have an interest in blogging, I follow a broad spectrum of blogs predominantly from the states. I have started blogs before but have recently closed them down due to time constraints. I happen to think the irish blogging scene is quite poor. I’d gladly help if you have questions
Thanks for your input Joe but the research is pretty much complete at this stage. :)
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