Political Science and Web 2.0
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1. About This Page:
The following questions ask you about your patterns of communication and interaction with others. This is not a formal survey but rather a quick and informal attempt to gather some information for a presentation, so just give the first response that comes to mind and if you cannot immediately answer a question, please leave it blank and move on to the next one. The survey has 10 questions and asks about 50 pieces of information. It should take about 5 to 10 minutes.

*Traditional* Reading: How many hours per week, on average, do you spend reading of the following sources in *paper* editions?

Please give the answer as a number between 0 and 100. If your usage is less than an hour a week, please use decimals such as .5 or .1 to reflect fractions of an hour or extremely rare usage.

2. *On-line* Reading: How many hours per week, on average, do you spend reading the following sources on-line?

Please give the answer as a number between 0 and 100, and feel free to use decimals such as 0.5 to denote fractions of an hour.

3. *On-line* Reading (continued): How many hours per week, on average, do you spend reading the following sources on-line?

Please give the answer as a number between 0 and 100, and feel free to use decimals such as 0.5 to denote fractions of an hour.

4. Creating: How many hours per week, on average, do you spend on the following activities?

Please give the answer as a number between 0 and 100, and feel free to use decimals such as 0.5 to denote fractions of an hour.

5. Creating (continued): How many hours per week, on average, do you spend on the following activities?

Please give the answer as a number between 0 and 100, and feel free to use decimals such as 0.5 to denote fractions of an hour.

6. Engaging: Which column best describes the degree to which you engage in the following activities. The listed categories are rough approximations, so pick whichever is closest.

 *Never**Rarely* (brief periods once/month or less)*Occasionaly* -Intermittent- (several 1-2 hour blocs /month)*Occasionaly* -Regular- (5-to-15 minutes every day)*Frequently* -Intermittent- (several 2+ hour blocs /month)*Frequently* -Regular- (15-60 minutes every day)*All_the_time* (more than 1 hour/day or 20 hours /month
Internet telephony (e.g. Skype, etc.)
Internet commerce (e.g. eBay, Amazon, etc.)
Virtual worlds/games (2nd Life, World of Warcraft, etc.)
Filesharing (e.g. BitTorrent, Kazaa, etc.)
Microblogging (Twitter, etc.)

7. Engaging II: Which column best describes the degree to which you engage in the following activities. The listed categories are rough approximations, so pick whichever is closest.

 *Never**Rarely* (brief periods once/month or less)*Occasionaly* -Intermittent- (several 1-2 hour blocs /month)*Occasionaly* -Regular- (5-to-15 minutes every day)*Frequently* -Intermittent- (several 2+ hour blocs /month)*Frequently* -Regular- (15-60 minutes every day)*All_the_time* (more than 1 hour/day or 20 hours /month
Social networks (e.g. Facebook, MySpace, etc.)
Social Bookmarking (e.g. del.icio.us, etc.)
Photosharing (e.g. flickr, etc.)
Social Citation Sharing (Connotea, Citeulike, Zotero, etc.)
Collaborative Document Creation (Zoho, Googledocs, wikis, etc.)
Mashups of data from various sources

8. Please read each of the following statements and mark the extent to which you agree or disagree:

 Strongly agreeSomewhat agreeSomewhat disagreeStrongly disagree
What you publish on the web can come back to haunt you
Academic departments should weigh blogs and related work when making tenure/promotion decisions
My academic career will benefit from the visibility made possible by the internet
There is a significant risk that others will use my academic ideas without giving proper credit
In my country of origin, citizens' votes are determined more by their economic attitudes than their cultural attitudes
I prefer not to circulate my academic work until it is near-final form
I enjoy using computers

9. To help me analyze the data, please fill in as much of the following demographic information as you care to. Please write in the text or use the handy numeric codes where applicable (Survey Monkey only allows only 10 questions on free surveys and throwing all the remaining questions into this ill-shaped box is my awkward way of getting around the restriction. Sorry.

10. Which of the following describes your academic affiliation:

   


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