You are invited to complete the New Zealand Political Blog Readers’ Survey for 2010. This survey is being conducted as a follow up to the 2008 survey which was conducted by Andrew Cushen as part of his Master of Arts in Political Studies from the University of Auckland. You may see the results of the original research here (PDF, 252 pages).
The original survey provided an amazing amount of data about who reads New Zealand political blogs and their thoughts on the medium and its potential. This survey is designed to gain further insights into New Zealand political blogging to inform academic articles and presentations.
If you wish to complete this survey, please follow this link.
They would appreciate receiving your response by Sunday, 19th December.
Done!
I had a go.
Easy peasy! I must say my rating of TV news suffered because Garner and his pet chimp kept popping into my head. And I’d have asked “do you think political leanings affect the trustworthiness of blogs?”
Heh… it’s tempting to imagine the responses of some of the more colourful denizens of the blogosphere to some of those questions 😀
I’m hoping for some abysmally low opinions of TV media.
All ones on my entry. Only because zero wasn’t an option.
Thought twins.
What, not a 5 for entertainment value? Shit, what else can engender such a roller coaster of responses from ridicule to anger in such a short time span?
Oh Bill, we have the whole internet for that!
I tried, but..
The term “political blogs” is just too wide. e.g. accuracy of political blogs on a scale of 1 – 5. How does that work when some blogs are well researched and fact-checked and some are Whale Oil?
Sorry, too hard.
True true, I just went on a subjective “don’t consider WO to be a political blog so much as a performance art piece” basis. But then I’m sure last time around I didn’t feel I qualified as a political blogger given the definition they had, which seemed to not be spelled out so clearly this time.
Yes, I thought grouping whole types of media was difficult – especially political blogs.
Half way thru I realised I’d interpreted “radio” as “radio NZ” which I definitely trust, but if I’d been considering talkback… well I’d’ve been looking for negative numbers… (as in I’d believe the opposite of what the person said, just because they said it 😈 )
Probably could’ve done with the numbers being a range, rather than a single value (ie I trust political blogs 0-5, tv news 2, radio 1-5, etc…)