Hello all,
For those that do not know me, my name is Zoe, a third year media student at the University of Lincoln, and for my Dissertation, I am studying ‘LOST’ and its fan culture. I need your help! If as many of you could please take a few moments of any free time to spare answering my questions, that would be fantastic! There are sixteen questions in total.
First set of questions is to do with the type of audience ‘LOST’ attracts for my audience research:
1. How old are you?
2. Are you male or female?
3. What do you do for a living? Are you employed, unemployed, student, retired etc?
4. Are you an aspirer or a homemaker?
5. Do you think ‘LOST’ is for a narrow audience or broad audience?
6. Where are you from?
And now for the questions on ‘LOST’
1. What is the appeal of 'LOST' to you?
2. How many ‘LOST’ forums are you a member of?
3. Do you part take in any fan culture activities? Such as fan fiction, fan videos, fan art, etc?
4. What would you consider as fan activity apart from the aspects I mentioned?
5. Do you look for spoilers, or avoid them?
6. Is six seasons enough, or would you rather there be more episodes?
7. To what extent does your fandom go?
8. Have you ever attended a ‘LOST’ convention, and if so, how were they conducted, and what did you do at them?
9. Would you go to Hawaii to go on the tour of the ‘LOST’ set, and if so, what would you get most excited about seeing?
10. Do your friends ever get tired of your expressed fandom of ‘LOST’, and would you consider yourself as an ‘Annoying LOST Fan’?
Thank you very much for your help, you can keep up-to-date with the progress of this dissertation if you follow this blog: fal108-themediastudent.blogspot.com
You may email your responses to: thelostdissertation@hotmail.co.uk
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There's a basic question you forgot that makes your questionnaire a cultural fail: "Where are you from?"
ReplyDeleteThe broad international audience of LOST is of deep interest for your study.
Thanks for your input there Veritas. I'll add it to the audience questions
ReplyDeleteI am a former teacher. Please take this in the spirit in which it is intended, which is to help you, not insult you. If you want people to see this as a professional, meaningful survey, you need to polish it up. A few suggestions: #4 is just a bad, potentionally insulting question. Many homemakers are aspirers, and many aspirers aspire to be homemakers. Find a way to rephrase it.
ReplyDelete#1, LOST needs to be in caps.
#2, "To how many LOST forums do you belong?"
#3, Put in a parenthese, take out *such as* and close the parenthese after etc.
#6, Take out *to come*. It's redundant.
#7. The word is EXTENT.
@Karelj thank you for your constructive criticism, I did post this late last night, so there were bound to be some errors, although I appreciate your help, it is a little embarrassing for you to have posted publically all my mistakes, next time, please could you email me instead?
ReplyDelete'LOST' was all in caps, bar two which I've now corrected
As for question #4 no-one has to answer that if they don't want too, or if they find it 'insulting' but at the end of the day, the question is in there for my audience research and I can't take it out as it's a standard aspect of audience profiling.