Hi all,

I am a PhD student in University College Cork, Ireland, where as part of my research I'm conducting a survey which examines Internet activity, and in particular, people's attitudes towards online chatting/dating. I would be grateful if you could could take 5 minutes to complete the survey at

http://taliope.ucc.ie

No experience of chat rooms is necessary to complete survey.

Thanks in advance, and all feedback is gratefully received.

Hi there

Very interesting! Are you a psychologist? Some of your questions made me feel you are working with psychology/technology and similar. I work with digital literacies especially young people's interpretative practices in SNS environments and also work on a pan European project that looks at children's encountering and coping with risks online and hence, of course this all was very interesting!

Was there more routing at the chatrooms point? i..e if someone filled it in, would they get more questions?

Good work!

Hi,

thanks for your feedback! Yes I am a Psychology Student - the questionnaire is a 'side' to my more empirical and qualitative work of analysing the use of online text in instant messaging and chatrooms. I'm primarily looking at how personality is perceived by others in online environments,and investigating the patterns and use of text to communicate in a text-only environment. The questionnaire I started when i was an undergraduate and I'm trying to validate it at the moment - they are all the questions, so there was no additional ones for those who have used a chatroom. I'm looking at everyone's opinions, regardless of their experience of chatting online.

So i suppose I'm drawing between HCI and Social within this area. Your work sounds great, I am really interested in the idea of online communities and sharing information. My Phd is quite general at a basic level, but I would love to do further work on experiences and identity within communities - especially discussion boards (and other non-synch places). Are you doing your Phd?