Hi everyone! Danielle the resident anthropologist here, I hope you are all well and that the new year is treating you right!
Thanks to the support and feedback of SE mods, we’ve been able to put together a survey designed to explore your engagement with SE and with the space sector.
The survey will be delivered here on the forums, as well as on the subreddit and Discord. The survey data will be anonymised, and will support the SpaceEngine case study I am building as part of my anthropology PhD exploring the use of social and new media in the space sector.
I’m interested in learning more about what you as a userbase/community (and you as an individual) do – your practices, motivations, interests, and experiences with regards to SE as a program and social setting, and with regards to the wider space sector and its content as you access and interact with it online. Any relevant results or insights may also be shared with SE mods or the wider SE community (after they have been anonymised) if it will provide valuable knowledge, improve community support and features, etc.
The survey (Google form) is mostly free-response but not very long – it should take 10-30 minutes to complete, but please take as long or as little as you like to do it. The only restriction is that you must be 18 years old or over to do the survey. Unfortunately this is an ethics clearance issue and not up to me, and I apologise if you aren’t able to take part as a result.
If you are interested in taking part in the survey and helping me learn more about the ways in which people (you and your community) are using new technology to access, learn about, and get involved in space, then please jump in! The survey can be found here:
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEaaVtUBbeqI2Sf8g5-8-5JGBfBH8GFpFWWQ7Xf6Yp36Xsiw/viewform?usp=sf_link>
Thank you so much for your time and generosity in allowing me to learn from and with you! If you have any questions about the survey, or suggestions for what you might like to see done with the results, feel free to reply in this thread, DM me, or email me at[email protected]
Danielle