[Air-l] Re: UCLA Internet Use Report

[danah boyd]

Michael Suman sent me a draft of the survey that i put up at
http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/danah/4aoir/DRAFT29.doc for group perusal.
I'm assuming, as the author didn't indicate otherwise, that forwarding
this is OK for academic purposes.

The following note is what i received with the attachment:

Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 15:28:32 -0800
From: Michael Suman <msuman at ucla.edu>
To: danah boyd <danah at media.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Surveying the Digital Future

Here is our questionnaire so you can see exactly how we asked the
questions.



On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, jeremy hunsinger wrote:

> I tend to agree with Lentz, et. al. (if someone wants to do an edited
> volume proposal on this, I'll help)perhaps the place to start with
> critique of this sort of thing is to demand the codebook if it is not
> publicly available to researchers, it should be provided upon request,
> then we can see the actual questions and coding, and build the critiques
> with that in mind.  While tracking surveys overall do have issues, I
> find the real problem between the lack of parity between the claims as
> presented to the public and the claims that are possible given a
> narrowest or widest interpretation of the information presented that
> could be derived from the data.
>
> jeremy hunsinger
> on the ibook
> www.cddc.vt.edu
> www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy
> www.dromocracy.com