If you’re on the Transgender spectrum in the United States, please participate in this anonymous national hate crime victim survey and share post this- it’s an opportunity to be heard, and make a difference. Let what you’ve been put through be representative to lawmakers of the reality of our lives, rather than be erased by your state.

(August 2022)

https://csulb.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bwGIR1Z3UaUKq9w

ID: A tweet by @/TransRightsMOVE reading:

The U.S. Transgender and Nonbinary Victimization Survey is continuing throughout August.

Please participate and share if you are 18 or over, a U.S. resident, and identify as trans or nonbinary.

Anonymous link: [the link already added in the tumblr post].

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Please add this ID onto the original post

Got Ship Opinions? Help Fansplaining out by taking their Shipping Survey and feel free to spread the link around alll the shipdoms you enjoy. 🙂

Even if you don’t normally take fandom surveys, you should take this one. 

The creators of it are releasing the results under a “creative commons license” which is: “one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted “work”. A CC license is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build upon a work that he or she (that author) has created.” 

This information will likely be used in fan studies scholarship (which otherwise often has a hard time getting mass statistical data), as well as in the commercial sector (i.e., market research). I’m definitely going to be bringing it to my employer to use in future fandom work we do. 

The effect of personality on fan engagement relating to online fandoms and how communities interact with one another.

PARTICIPANT INVITATION LETTER

You are being invited to participate in a research study. Before you agree it is important that you understand what your participation would involve. Please take time to read the following information carefully.

Who am I?

I am an undergraduate student in the School of Psychology at the University of East London and am studying for a BSc Psychology degree. As part of my studies I am conducting the research you are being invited to participate in.

What is the research?

I am conducting research into the effect personality has on fan engagement and content creation in online fan communities.

My research has been approved by the School of Psychology Research Ethics Committee. This means that my research follows the standard of research ethics set by the British Psychological Society.

Why have you been asked to participate?

You have been invited to participate in my research as someone who fits the kind of people I am looking for to help me explore my research topic. I am looking to involve people who have been involved in online fandoms for more than three months and are over 18.

I emphasise that I am not looking for ‘experts’ on the topic I am studying. You will not be judged or personally analysed in any way and you will be treated with respect.

You are quite free to decide whether or not to participate and should not feel coerced.

What will your participation involve?

If you agree to participate you will be asked to complete two questionnaires and a short demographics form. This is expected to take no longer than 15 minutes, and as an online survey, you can complete it anywhere.

I will not be able to pay you for participating in my research but your participation would be very valuable in helping to develop knowledge and understanding of my research topic

Your taking part will be safe and confidential

Your privacy and safety will be respected at all times. You will not be indentifiable by any of the collected data, or in any of the written report. You are not obligated to answer all of the questions and you can withdraw from the survey at any time if you no longer wish to take part.

What will happen to the information that you provide?

What I will do with the material you provide will involve storing only anonymous data. No identifiable information will be collected. The people who will see the data will be myself, my academic supervisor, examiners. It may be published in academic journals, but that is the largest situation and not the one that is most important to focus on. When the study has been completed, the data will be destroyed. Nothing will be kept upon completion of the study.

What if you want to withdraw?

You are free to withdraw from the research study at any time without explanation, disadvantage or consequence. However, if you withdraw I would reserve the right to use material that you provide up until the point of my analysis of the data.

Contact Details

If you would like further information about my research or have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me:

Hannah Smith

Email: [email protected]

If you have any questions or concerns about how the research has been conducted please contact the research supervisor António Fidalgo. School of Psychology, University of East London, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ,

Email: [email protected]

or

Chair of the School of Psychology Research Ethics Sub-committee: Dr Tim Lomas, School of Psychology, University of East London, Water Lane, London E15 4LZ. (Email: [email protected])

Following reading this information, if you would like to take part in the survey proposed, please follow the link below. If you don’t wish to do the study, I’d appreciate it if you could signal boost this post. 

http://some-sort-of-firefly.tumblr.com/QualtricsSurvey201819

Thank you very much for your time and consideration. 

hey guys! this user is trying to do some preliminary research on personality types in fandom spaces—it’ll take 5-10 minutes to fill out the survey and obviously, the larger the sample size, the better!

Signal boosting a fellow psychological researcher! It’s quite quick and easy, and has a really interesting way of approaching fandom engagement!

Bonjour !

Je prépare un article pour Komitid sur la représentation LGBT+ dans les fanfictions du coup j'ai préparé un questionnaire pour avoir des témoignages de lecteurices et auteurices.

Ça m'aiderait beaucoup si tu prenais le temps d'y répondre (ça prend littéralement 5 minutes) et de le diffuser ! Merci :D

https://goo.gl/forms/hzZUREykCsBrub2l1

A fun survey of the meanings of 42 common emoji, from the Cognition and Language Lab (CALL) at Linfield College. You can take it here if you’re over 18 (no other criteria). 

Looking forward to seeing the results when they come out! 

I’m fascinated to see that exclusionists are BY FAR the most opposed to the term “queer.” And that the only group that comes close to their 17% approval of the term is truscum, at 27%.

Not that I’m surprised they don’t like it. I’m surprised at the immense gap between what they insist, and scream, over and over – that very few people have reclaimed queer, that we should all avoid using it, that older people hate it because it was used against us but younger people hate it because only older people briefly reclaimed it –

and the reality of it being overwhelmingly accepted, preferred, and used, outside of all but a few very insulated groups.

I started asking people on twitter how they used the winky face emoticon or emoji, and found a surprising amount of disagreement about whether it indicates flirting, simply joking, both, or something else. 

So I decided to make a survey with a couple extra questions to see if we can figure out what correlates with each meaning. 

You can see other people’s responses as soon as you fill it out.