Feministing Survey
Bowling Green State University
Department of English


Greetings,

My name is Kerri Hauman, and I am a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric and Writing at Bowling Green State University, where I am currently beginning work on my dissertation. I am completing this work under the guidance of my co-chairs, Dr. Kristine Blair and Dr. Lee Nickoson. In my dissertation, I am excited to explore the digital writing practices of the Feministing community, a community I have been an avid reader in for about four years. In particular, I’m eager to see how an online community creates opportunities for written communication that benefit and, if applicable, hinder the activist work inherent in feminism. In order to create a research project that accounts for more than just my own voice and opinions, which I feel is vital to creating a more meaningful project, I am requesting your input on this topic via responses to a short electronic survey.

Purpose and Benefits
As a teacher of college writing, I believe a study of the types of writing that go on outside of college classrooms will be extremely beneficial to me and to others who study and teach writing and feminism. Of course, I also anticipate that this research will be of interest to any writer and/or feminist. I especially hope this research will be of interest to those who are part of the Feministing community, and I am happy to share my work in progress as well as my completed dissertation. You may follow my work in my research blog, located at http://textploratory.wordpress.com/. However, there are no monetary awards offered for your participation in this project.

Procedure and Nature of the Project
Your participation in this research project is completely voluntary, and your decision to participate or not will not affect your relationship with Bowling Green State University. You may decide to skip questions or discontinue participation at any time. Additionally, the editors of Feministing are aware of this project and that I am asking you to participate. There are no anticipated risks associated with this project.

If you choose to participate, I am the only person who will have access to your answers, and I will save these files in a password-protected digital folder. You will not need to identify yourself by name, though you may choose to do so, or you may choose a pseudonym by which you wish to be identified. Therefore, depending on how you choose to identify yourself (or not), you may remain anonymous, and I will take all measures to ensure that any reference to your answers in any subsequent presentations or publications would not be traceable to you unless you give me explicit permission to reveal your identity. Because I am asking you to complete an electronic survey, I want to remind you: (1) you may want to complete your survey on a personal computer as some employers may use tracking software; (2) you should not leave the survey open if using a public computer or a computer others may have access to; and (3) you should clear your browser cache and page history after completing the survey.

It is my hope that you will take approximately 30 minutes to complete the following survey. Your completion of the survey also indicates that you consent to my use of your data in my dissertation and any subsequent publications.

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me (kerri.hauman@gmail.com or 419-348-9505). As well, you are welcome to contact the faculty members supervising this research project: Lee Nickoson (leenick@bgsu.edu or 419-372-7556) or Kristine Blair (kblair@bgsu.edu or 419-372-7543). You may also contact the Chair, Human Subjects Review Board at 419-372-7716 or hsrb@bgsu.edu, if you have any questions about your rights as a participant in this research.

I’d like to thank you in advance for considering my research and hope that you share my interest in examining how the writing practices in digital communities affect feminist activism.

Sincerely,
Kerri Hauman
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Demographic Information
Please provide short answer responses to the following demographic questions.
What is your age?
How do you identify your gender?
What is your nationality?
What is your occupation?
Are you currently a student?
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Do you identify as a feminist?
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Are there other parts of your identity you would like to share with me?
Participation in Feministing
1. How long have you participated (writing and/or reading) in the Feministing community?
select one
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2. What made you decide to take part in Feministing?
For each of the following, select one option that you feel best describes your WRITING participation on Feministing.com.
3a. How often do you write comments on someone  else's blog post on the Feministing home page?
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3b. How often do you write your own blog posts on the Community page?
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3c. How often do you write comments on someone else's blog posts on the Community page?
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3d. How often do you write your own blog posts on the Campus page?
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3e. How often do you write comments on someone else's blog posts on the Campus page?
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For each of the following, select one option that you feel best describes your READING/VISITING participation on Feministing.
4a. How often do you read/visit the "Community" page?
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4b. How often do you read/visit the "Campus" page?
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4c. How often do you read/visit the Feministing Facebook page?
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4d. How often do you read/visit the Feministing Twitter page?
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4e. How often do you view/visit the Feministing YouTube channel?
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Effects of Feministing
5. How would you describe the goals of Feministing?
6. What effect(s) has Feministing had on you?
7. In your opinion, what effects has the Feministing community had more broadly (on young people, on feminism, on society, etc.)?
8. What do you feel are the best aspects/parts of Feministing, and why?
9. What do you wish you could change about Feministing, and why?
Writing and Feminism/Activism
10. How important is writing to feminism?
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11. How would you describe the relationship between writing and feminist activism?
If you have never written anything for Feministing, you may skip the rest of this section and go directly to question 19.
12. In the past, what has prompted you to write something for Feministing?
13. How long do you typically spend writing a blog post for Feministing?
14. How long do you typically spend writing a comment for Feministing?
15. How do you decide the approach to take in your writing (e.g., hostile, humorous), or do you not spend much time considering this?
16. How do you decide what type of content goes into what you write (e.g., video, text, links), or do you not spend much time considering this?
17. What are your goals for your writing – that is, what do you want your writing to do; how do you want it to affect readers?
18. What types of responses have you gotten to your writing at Feministing? How have you felt about these responses? (How) have you responded in turn?
Technology and Feminism/Activism
19. How comfortable are you using digital tools like blogs?
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20. Describe how you acquired and/or developed the technological skills necessary to participate in Feministing.
(e.g., classes, jobs, parents, friends, trial and error)
21. In your life outside of Feministing, how do you typically use technology?
22. What other technological spaces do you use/have you used for feminism and/or activism, and how have you used them?
23. What non-technological spaces or approaches do you use/have you used for feminism and/or activism?
24. How do you think digital tools (e.g., computer, smartphone) have affected feminist activism?
Identification Preferences
How would you like to be identified in my writeup - by name (if so, please provide your name), by pseudonym (if so, please provide a pseudonym), or no direct reference?
Please indicate how you would like me to use your words in my writeup:
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If you are willing to be contacted for follow up, please provide your preferred contact info (email, skype, phone number).
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