Women Bloggers Survey
Carmen Stavrositu from Pennsylvania State University contacted me to ask me to take part in a survey last week. Her email said:
“Dear Yang-May
I am contacting you regarding a blog survey I am conducting. I am a Ph.D.
candidate in Mass Communication at Penn State and my dissertation project
consists of a survey that looks at women bloggers’ perceived motivations
for and effects of their blogging.I am sending the survey to a number of bloggers, and I would like to invite
you to participate in it as well. Participation should take approximately 15
minutes of your time. I would appreciate it tremendously if you would be
willing to take the survey. If you decide to do so, please follow the link
below:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/cds205/blog/signin.htmI would be very happy to share the findings of my study with you once it is
completed!If you have any questions or comments, please don’t hesitate to contact
me!Thank you in advance,
Carmen”
I took the survey and it was all about what my purpose or objective is in blogging and what were the outcomes of blogging for me personally eg did I feel connected to a wider community? Did I feel more assertive? Overall, my answers showed me that I really enjoy blogging and part of the fun of it is sharing my thoughts and ideas as well as connecting with other bloggers and also hearing what they have to share in response to what I’ve written. My life has been enhanced by blogging in that I’ve met a lot of interesting and generous people through online conversations (by emails and comments) and in some cases, I’ve met them in person through live events that have come out of blogging (eg my KL Book Events). It has also made me feel more connected to a wider, global community, making me think more beyond my local environment. At the same time, I’m also interested in my local environment more as it offers me ideas for posts to share with others who are from another culture or a distant country.
Carmen is keen to for more women bloggers to take part in her survey so do click on the link above to get involved - it’s entirely anonymous apart from having to give your gender and age. If you’d like to share your reactions to taking the survey, do come back and leave a comment or email me. Or write about it on your own blog and link back here.
Photo of researcher: thanks to ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
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Tue, May 1st, 2007 - Author
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May 1st, 2007 at 10:25 pm
If it’s a survey about women bloggers, why ask for the gender of the respondent? Or is there some other explanation? Maybe I should visit the link to find out.
May 1st, 2007 at 10:41 pm
It’s probably so that the person doing the survey confirms she is female. I suppose it is open to abuse by a male who comes along and just does the survey and lies…
May 6th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
Which then diminishes the reliability of the survey. So it’s prudent for her to seek out the women bloggers through profile checks whence the question becomes redundant. But I guess one could not go wrong (or any more wrong) with confirmation.
May 9th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Will she come back and post some results here as a guestblogger - or you could interview her in your succinct manner :)
May 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Good idea, Pey. I’ll see what I can do re getting her back later this year.