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Thank you for your time. You are invited to participate in a research project conducted through the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Northern Iowa. The following information is provided to help you made an informed decision about whether or not to participate. I am interested in studying how women communicate using the Internet, specifically through the creation and use of weblogs.
As a participant in this research, you will be asked a set of questions online, both closed- and open-ended. The questions generally relate to your blogging practices and your thoughts about blogging. This process will take approximately 30 minutes. Upon completion of the questions, the information will be transmitted via the Internet to a secure server. Information obtained during this study which could identify you will be kept strictly confidential. Neither your name nor any other personal identifier will be associated with the collected data or be used in any presentation or publication that may result from the study.
Participation in the study is completely voluntary. You are free to withdraw from participation at any time or to choose to not participate at all, and by doing so, you will not be penalized or lose any benefits to which you were otherwise entitled. There is minimal risk associated with this study. Since Internet transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure, the main source of risk of participation is harm associated with a breach of confidentiality during the transmission of data. You will receive no direct benefits or compensation for participating in the study.
If you have questions about the study, or desire information in the future regarding your participation or the study generally, you can contact me, Katherine Niman, at 319-222-6227, my faculty advisor, Dr. Marybeth Stalp, at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, University of Northern Iowa 319-273-6235. You can also contact the office of the IRB Administrator, University of Northern Iowa, at 319-273-6148, for answers to questions about rights of research participants and the participant review process.
Agreement:
By clicking the “Continue” button below, I acknowledge that I am fully aware of the nature and extent of my participation in this project as stated above and the possible risks arising from it. I hereby agree to participate in this project. I am 18 years of age or older. Sex (i.e. female, male, trans, intersex): If United States, what state? How would you describe the area in which you currently live? Highest Level of Traditional Education: What were/are your specialty areas (e.g., majors and minors)? What is your current profession?
(If student, please list.) About how many hours per week do you work at your current job? Do you have a computer with internet access in your current residence? From where do you access your blog regularly? About how many people do you interact with online through your blog in your daily life? About how many people do you interact with offline in your daily life? (including work, school, home, social, phone, texting, etc.) What attracted you to blogging? How long have you been blogging? How many blogs do you currently maintain? If more than one, do these blogs serve different purposes for you? Explain. How often do you blog (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly)? How much time, on average, do you devote to reading and writing blogs? (e.g., 5 hours a day/week/month.) In regards to your blog, how do you decide what to include? If you include images, how did you come to this decision? At what sites do you blog? (Check all that apply.) How do you use your blog? Please complete the following statement, checking all that apply: I include the following in my blog: Please tell me about your last blog entry. (This can mean summarizing what you wrote about or copy/pasting your latest entry into the text box below.) What do you feel you blog about mostly/primarily? How do other bloggers react to your blog entries? Are they supportive or confrontational? How so - could you give me an example? When creating your blog, who did you intend your audience to be - is this now the case? Do you lock any of your entries to control who can and cannot read them? Follow-up: How did you come to this decision? Have you ever added bloggers to your friends list/blogroll? If so, what is the protocol you follow (e.g., do you ask first, then add)? If you have others reading your blog/s, what is your guess as to how many regular blog readers you have? In addition to maintaining your own blog/s, do you read others' blogs? If so, how often do you read others' blogs? If you read others' blogs, how do you select the blogs that you read? (e.g., topic, similar interests, quality of writing, people you already know, etc.)? Have you ever left comments on other people's blogs? What prompted you to do so? Do people leave comments on your blog/s? If so, what kinds of comments? Have you ever communicated outside a blog with anybody that you knew originaly from a blog? If so, what was the context (e.g., email, phone, personal visit)? How do you view blogging as a form of communication? Are there things that you prefer about blogging over other forms of communication? Describe the kind of community there is in blogging. How would you describe blogging to someone who had never read or written a blog before? What was it that made you decide to start a blog? For what reasons do you continue to blog? How important is blogging to you? What would you miss about blogging if you stopped? How does blogging allow you to communicate? Is this different from other forms of communication available to you? Do you find other bloggers to be supportive of your blog entries? How so? Do you think of blogging as political? Why or why not? If yes, political how? Is there anything that I haven't asked you about blogging that you think is important for me to know about? Thank you for your time.
If you would like to tell other people about this study, I would greatly appreciate it. The stable link is http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=613719. Please feel free to post this URL in your blog/s in order to encourage others to participate in this study.
You are invited to participate in a research project conducted through the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at the University of Northern Iowa. The following information is provided to help you made an informed decision about whether or not to participate. I am interested in studying how women communicate using the Internet, specifically through the creation and use of weblogs.
As a participant in this research, you will be asked a set of questions online, both closed- and open-ended. The questions generally relate to your blogging practices and your thoughts about blogging. This process will take approximately 30 minutes. Upon completion of the questions, the information will be transmitted via the Internet to a secure server. Information obtained during this study which could identify you will be kept strictly confidential. Neither your name nor any other personal identifier will be associated with the collected data or be used in any presentation or publication that may result from the study.
Participation in the study is completely voluntary. You are free to withdraw from participation at any time or to choose to not participate at all, and by doing so, you will not be penalized or lose any benefits to which you were otherwise entitled. There is minimal risk associated with this study. Since Internet transmissions cannot be guaranteed to be secure, the main source of risk of participation is harm associated with a breach of confidentiality during the transmission of data. You will receive no direct benefits or compensation for participating in the study.
If you have questions about the study, or desire information in the future regarding your participation or the study generally, you can contact me, Katherine Niman, at 319-222-6227, my faculty advisor, Dr. Marybeth Stalp, at the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminology, University of Northern Iowa 319-273-6235. You can also contact the office of the IRB Administrator, University of Northern Iowa, at 319-273-6148, for answers to questions about rights of research participants and the participant review process.
Agreement:
By clicking the “Continue” button below, I acknowledge that I am fully aware of the nature and extent of my participation in this project as stated above and the possible risks arising from it. I hereby agree to participate in this project. I am 18 years of age or older. |
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