I'm an Anthropology/Media Studies student at S.U.N.Y. Purchase working on a long term project involving the Daily Kos community. I'm hoping to engage as many niches (genres?) of the site's readers/participants as possible. I've been attending local meetings for progressive causes (Daily Kos and otherwise) to meet and interact with everyone here on a more face-to-face level, but I know there's a huge audience here who might not write diary entires, and probably even more whom refrain from even commenting. I'm asking for your help.
Survey
Yeah. It's a survey, I know. But it's relatively short (less than 5 minutes of your time likely), and this is a topic which is in some dire need of attention in the academic world. You'll be helping me, but I think it's also fair to label it also beneficial to the site as well.
If you read for this long, I should also make clear that the survey is completely anonymous, and not all questions need be answered. Any imput is helpful to me. It is designed for people "lurking" on the site in some manner, those which mainly "view" the site. If you don't consider yourself a lurker, feel free to take the survey as well, just be sure to mention yourself as "non-lurker".
A preemptive apology to those thinking I'm abusing the diaries for purposes other than what's intended: I embarked on the study after being fascinated by the site's workings and potential, and found no evidence of other social scientists paying attention to what I think are phenomena characteristic of the "netroots". The project is not related to electing democrats, and I know this, but is relating to the academic pursuit of just what is going on here.
So, as a show of solidarity, (I read the site for over 2 years without creating a login name) please take my survey.
Please take my survey.