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Contact: Michael O’Connor
moconnor23NOSPAM@NOSPAMgmail.NOSPAMcom

Thank you for agreeing to participate and taking the time to fill out this survey. This is an ethnographic exploration of the experiences of the Insert Credit user community and the forums and their closure.

No names or identifying characteristics will be used in the final ethnographic report. The survey should take 10 to 20 minutes of your time - please answer the questions as honestly and completely as possible. I have left space at the end of the survey for respondents to insert any additional information they feel is relevant to their experiences. I may also contact respondents with some brief follow-up questions.

If you have any questions or concerns about the study please don’t hesitate to contact me.

The final report will be available to all participants. Thank you very much for your time.

A fresh copy of this document is available at:
http://dhex.org/cuny/ethnography/IC/oconnor-ICsurvey.doc

i just want to stress that i am very interested in the experience of all users, regardless of posting involvement. again, if you have any questions please feel free to email me at the above address. thank you.

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edit: i am quite sorry i missed your goodbye there, wilkes.

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more is always better, though i've had 45 offers so far, and about 20 responses. i don't need to start analysis and draft writing until the end of february anyway.

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thanks to everyone who has replied so far. if you know of anyone who could contribute - and wouldn't mind - but hasn't seen the postings, please pass it along. more data is better.

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thanks, psiga.

i'm going to be contacting people with followups shortly (hopefully by this weekend, depending on work/job search concerns) but i am also going to be contacting a random sampling of some folks to request a "real time" gmail chat (or aim or whatever) interview.

thanks again to everyone who has responded. i appreciate the effort. and there's still time for anyone else who wants to submit, i'm not going to close off extra entries for a few more weeks, minimum.

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hey all, just about done processing everything; i'd like to do some more gmail chat (gchat?) interviews with people, so if anyone's interested (nights and weekends are pretty much it as far as availability, so 7PM EST onward figure) drop me a line at moconnor23 AT gmail DoT com and we can set something up.

and if anyone has any surveys not yet done, it's not too late to hand things in; i've only just started writing my outlines and methodology bits.

and thanks again for all of the responses. this has been very insightful and interesting.

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it will be publicly available when it's put to bed, and i'll make sure to send out notice to everyone who participated.

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hey toups or whomever, you can de-sticky this. i'm stuffed to the brim with data. anyone who wants to pile on can still contact/pm/smoke signal me.

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Well, it's finally done and in. I want to thank everyone who participated once again. The link to the final paper is below - feel free to share it with anyone who might be interested (or suffer from insomnia).

http://conchobar.org/IC/oconnor-IC_ethnography.pdf

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quck shot - good catch. thanks. i dumped it off into my "scratch" doc for editing (because my wife is evil and made me change the word order) and didn't put it back in. and no one caught that.

there's probably a few dozen other mistakes in there that i just lost in the past week or so.

note: the updated pdf is 10x the size of the original. word file to pdf on a mac is super fucked up. it's still less than 1mb though.