The state blog survey is now available between now and June 30, 2007.
--Background information on this research is available here.
--Please complete the survey only once.
--Please forward the link to others who may be willing to participate in this study.
The survey is available here.
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Thank you!
8 comments:
Choices are too generic and too limiting: a 3-point scale on whether bloggers are journalists, for instance.
Many journalists blog, but not all bloggers are journalists.
Your choices are too limited; I got frustrated and had to give up after I had to post a page of all "don't know"s. It's not that I "don't know," it's that all politicians and politics in my state can't be grouped together.
You're setting yourself up to get very facile answers.
I filled it out but after question#75 or something there was an error. I hit back and reanswered those questions and there were no more problems...hopefully it all went well.
I just took the survey. There may be a flaw in the way you interpret survey responses from a few states. There is a question that asks whether the respondent is registered to vote. Some states -- Wyoming, North Dakota and a couple others, I think -- do not have voter registration. If you are discounting the opinions of non-registered people, that would be an error for respondents from those states that do not have registration. Maybe you already knew this.
I took the survey, but I think the political orientation questions are leading. After all, people are "liberal" or "conservative" depending on the issue. After all, George Bush is less conservative than Bill Clinton on every fiscal issue, but no one calls him a liberal.
The employment question is too narrow. I consider myself self-employed which is far different from being a full time employee. I agree that the liberal/conservative question is very limiting and will produce polarized, narrow results.
What deenya said. Some are journalists and some are not.
Some are good and some are not. Some politicians . . . and so on.
regarding "getting the facts straight": I think one of the greatest functions of a political blogger is to bird dog the media rather than conduct first-hand investigative journalism. While getting the facts straight is important for critics as well as reporters, I don't think that the emphasis in blogs is on factual accuracy -- blogs, even investigative blogs, are largely personal and reflect opinion rather than sleuthing. There are erxceptions, of course.
Let us know when the results come in, please
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