Michael Suman sent me a draft of the survey that i put up at http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/danah/4aoir/DRAFT29.doc for group perusal. I'm assuming, as the author didn't indicate otherwise, that forwarding this is OK for academic purposes. The following note is what i received with the attachment: Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:28:32 -0800 From: Michael Suman <msuman@ucla.edu> To: danah boyd <danah@media.mit.edu> Subject: Re: Surveying the Digital Future Here is our questionnaire so you can see exactly how we asked the questions. On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I tend to agree with Lentz, et. al. (if someone wants to do an edited volume proposal on this, I'll help)perhaps the place to start with critique of this sort of thing is to demand the codebook if it is not publicly available to researchers, it should be provided upon request, then we can see the actual questions and coding, and build the critiques with that in mind. While tracking surveys overall do have issues, I find the real problem between the lack of parity between the claims as presented to the public and the claims that are possible given a narrowest or widest interpretation of the information presented that could be derived from the data.
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