Communication Study-January

Hello,

We are conducting a study on day-to-day interactions and connections between people and would like to include your opinions. This study involves completing an online journal/blog over the course of 10 days. If you qualify and participate, as a thank you for your time you will receive $175. Following the 10-day period, there is also the possibility that we'll want to spend some time talking in-person with you (for which you would receive an additional $150). If you are interested, please fill out the questionnaire below and, if you qualify, a recruiter will contact you to follow up.

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* 1. Which of the following would you be interested in participating in?

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* 2. Do you currently have access to high-speed internet (DSL or faster) on a daily basis for personal use?

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* 3. How would you rate your experience level with using a computer?

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* 4. For this project, you will be asked to upload or post a summary of your everyday communications with people to a secure website on a daily basis. This website will only be visible to those participating in the project and to our research team.

Additionally, you will be asked to allow members of our research team to friend/follow you on any social networking sites you belong to. This will only be temporary, and we will exit your social network following the 10-day research period.

Are you comfortable with this?

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* 5. Do you or does anyone in your household work in any of the following industries?

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* 6. What is your gender?

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* 7. How old are you?

Example: 23 (Numbers ONLY!)

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* 8. Are you of Hispanic or Latino origin?

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* 9. Which of the following best describe your ethnicity?

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* 10. Which of the following best describes the area where you live?

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* 11. What major city would you say you're closest to?

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* 12. Which of the following categories best describes your current employment status?

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* 13. Which of the following categories best describes your total annual household income(before taxes)?

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* 14. With whom and how people interact with each other often depends on their particular life stage or situation. Listed below are several statements related to different life stages or life situations that may or may not describe you. Please read each statement carefully and select all statements that fit with your current stage of life.

Which of the following statements fit with your current stage of life? (Please select all that apply)

For the next few questions, there will be a bunch of statements in pairs. For each one, please indicate whether the first or the second statement describes you better. If you’re not sure, then please just choose the one that you think describes you even a little bit better.

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* 15. Which of the following statements best describes you?

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* 16. Which of the following statements best describes you?

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* 17. Which of the following statements best describes you?

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* 18. Which of the following statements best describes you?

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* 19. Thinking about all of the people in your life, including friends, family, colleagues, and anyone else, how often do you connect or interact with them for social purposes or just to acknowledge life’s everyday moments?

For this, please do NOT think about communications that are for specific events (such as birthdays or anniversaries), communications that are strictly functional (like asking a family member to pick up an item from the grocery store), or necessary small talk (such as talking about what to make for dinner, discussing the weather, etc.).

Rather, we want you to think about those times when you really wanted to connect, acknowledge, or commemorate something with the people in your life. This could include connections such as reaching out to a friend to “just say hi” or make them laugh, sharing moments of encouragement, or any other interactions like this.

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* 20. Now, for this question please continue to think specifically about those purposeful social interactions or acknowledgements of life’s everyday moments that were described earlier. Please remember to exclude communication for specific occasions (like someone’s birthday), anything that is strictly functional(like asking a family member to pick up items from the grocery store), or necessary small talk(such as talking about what to make for dinner).

Which of the following do you do in a typical month to connect, acknowledge, or celebrate everyday moments with the people in your life? Please carefully read through each item on the list and select those that you do in a typical month.

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* 21. Now, for this question, please think about the past 12 months.

In the past 12 months, how many individual paper greeting cards (excluding multi-pack or boxed cards) have you yourself personally bought from a retail store? By paper greeting card, we mean cards for any occasion such as for Birthdays, Mother’s Day, etc.

If you’re not sure, please enter your best estimate of the number of individual paper greeting cards you bought at a retail store in the past 12 months.

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* 22. Sometimes people will purchase subscriptions or memberships to be part of a community or group or to gain access to more premium content. Examples include dating sites, meet-ups, greeting card sites, e-card sites, professional or social networking sites, music sites, sports sites, news sites, discount/coupon sites, etc. Do you subscribe to any of these types of sites?

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* 23. Which of the following devices, if any, do you currently own?

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* 24. What types of apps do you have on your Smartphone or Tablet?

If you don’t have a Smartphone or Tablet, please select “neither”.

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