----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brake" <david.brake@cfrq.net> To: <air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 12:37 PM Subject: [Air-l] email lists available of UK Internet users?
I am contemplating an email-based survey of home page owners in the UK. I have some sympathy with Krishnamurthy, S. (2004) "The Ethics of Conducting E-Mail Surveys" in Readings in Virtual Research Ethics : Issues and Controversies, (Buchanan, E. A. ed.) Information Science Pub., Hershey, PA, http://faculty.washington.edu/sandeep/d/emailethics.pdf who suggests unsolicited survey requests could be considered spam and that academics should share lists of opted in email users where possible.
So on the off chance this is possible has anyone assembled a reasonably large store of email addresses of UK Internet users - especially of UK home page owners? If I were to assemble a list of UK home page owners and received agreement from those contacted would others be willing and able to share it for their own research? If we could agree on a purposive sampling technique that would be methodologically (and ethically) defensible would anyone else be willing to help me to build such a list?
-- David Brake, PhD researcher in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science
<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunicat ions.htm>
Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page) and http://blog.org/ (weblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/dealingwithemail/> gives ordering info
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