Dear All,
I am wondering whether any bloggers and blog readers of the list would like to
take part in a little survey that I am doing. If you wish to participate in
this study your name will not appear in any report resulting from this study
and all information you provide is confidential.
On completion of my research, I will be pleased to send you a summary report
detailing the results. Moreover, you have the right to withdraw at any time,
and your data will be destroyed.
In this study I have ten questions as follows. If you like to contribute in this
study please briefly answer the following questions and email your answers to
me.
If you do not want to answer all questions, you can answer as many questions as
you wish.
Q1: For what purposes you read weblogs?
Q2: If you have your own weblog, for what purposes you have developed it and
what are your motivation to keep it upload maintain it?
Q3: What kinds of weblogs are the most favourite ones for you?
Q4: How would you define a useful weblog?
Q5: How useful the existing weblogs in your area of study are found by you?
Q6: Can a weblog be considered as a source of information and a means of
communication for the member of your community?
Q7: In your opinion which element/elements of weblogs are found the most
attractive for weblog readers which encourage them to revisit a weblog?
Q8: Which elements of blogging do help bloggers to keep updating their weblogs?
What are the sources of encouragement that keep them enthusiastic to maintain
their weblog up-to-date?
Q9: What are the reasons that stop bloggers of continuing to maintain their
weblog up-to-date? What are the sources of frustration for bloggers which lead
them to give up blogging?
Q10: How does the reading behaviour of weblog readers and writing habit/style of
bloggers change over time?
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Yazdan Mansourian, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Technology,
Faculty of Psychology and Education,
Tarbiat Moallem University,
No 49, Mofateh Ave, P.O.Box: 15614, Tehran, Iran
Email (2): [log in to unmask] Tel: +9821 888 30228
HomePage: http://y.mansourian.googlepages.com/
Weblog: http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/
Old URL: http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/yazdan/
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