Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Are you in?

Remember when I said I was thinking about studying weblogs for my seminar? You must if you had that question right on my quiz ;) The main hypothesis is not yet defined but it should be something concerning identity in blogging and a comparison between blog groups and groups in face-to-face relationships.
If you'd like to help me do this study and are interested in participating, these are the main conditions (terms of agreement):
- your blog name and web-address may have to be included in the study. All other personal data won't be published or even asked;
- the contents of your blog will be analyzed by me and my co-worker but this won't be more invasive than the act of publishing your posts (if you published something, then you're ready to show it to "the world", so to speak)
- After the content analysis we will ask you to answer a questionnaire/interview concerning the act of blogging, your motivations and blog and face to face relationships. Anything you don't want to discuss, you're obviously free to say so.
- The main results will be translated to English and communicated to you, if you like. This is a serious academical assignment so you can trust us to be ethical and all that. Devil Mood won't be working on this (she's just a crazy girl that blogs), the other serious side of me will take care of this part of my life ;)

14 comments:

  1. yeah use whatever you need. Use superfoot too if you like, its still visible I just checked. Of course if you want to ask me anything else Id need it in English but you can mail me at stehouse79@hotmail.com

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  2. Thanks guys! I really appreciate it :)

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  3. I'm in...sounds like fun...and, more importantly, I may be asking you to return the favor later, depending on what actually happens with my thesis in a year (though it will be from a different perspective, more information science, maybe the epistemic framework for blogging, or some such).

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  4. Kimananda: Thank you and I sure will return the favour if I'm able to answer to your requests...that sounds complicated ;P But I'm sure you'll make it easier for me...

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  5. I'm in, if you need me !!
    Take care, Meow

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  6. Oops, the deleted thing was me - sorry to treat you to random words from my clipboard :)

    I'm in! Sounds like a cool project!

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  7. i'm in! you can mail me at valerenec@yahoo.com

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  8. Thank you Meow, Stephanie, Chris, Daybyday and Valerene :)
    This is going to be good, I hope. Any questions you can contact me on my new blog-only address: devil_mood@clix.pt

    I'll be in touch soon!

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  9. Hey, I had a clix account at one point. All I remember about it was that the password was so complicated, that I forgot it about a week after I left the country, and so haven't been able to use it since!

    And, I'll be in Lisboa for the month of July, funding permitting. If I visit Porto for a weekend (highly likely, if only on my way to Tras-os-Montes), can I offer you a coffee at the Majestic?

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  10. Kimananda: That'd be great :) My password to the clix account is really complicated too but I've memorized it and I don't want to change now ;)

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