From: MASOUDER@ALEX.STKATE.EDU
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Subject: History Audience Analysis Survey (2nd request)
Date: 12 Nov 92 20:28:57 GMT
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HISTORY listmembers

I am exploring the questions below to study audience analysis
for electronic mail discussion lists which is important (the issue, not the
paper) to those us who use computer-mediated-communications (cmc) as a
teaching tool to encourage guided and spontaneous interactions among
members of collaborative learning communities.

I would appreciate any response the list members could give me to any or all
of the questions on this survey

Please send your survey responses to me MASOUDER@ALEX.STKATE.EDU or the snail
address below by November 13, 1992.  I'll summarize the results on the list and
send anyone who participates a copy of my paper via e-mail on December 4.

Thanks

Mick Souder
Coordinator, New Pathways Project
College of St. Catherine
2004 Randolph Ave. F-30
St. Paul, MN 55105
masouder@alex.stkate.edu
phone: 612-690-6050
fax:   612-690-6549

To participate identify the question number(s) and send me your answer
(or forward and edit this message to me, mail or fax your responses)
All responses will remain anonymous unless you tell me that you wish to
be quoted in the paper.


1.      Do you feel the membership of HISTORY is a distinct "discourse
        community"?

        If so, how would you describe the community?


2.      When you post a message on HISTORY, who do you feel you are writing
        to/for?
        (i.e. history reserachers, history teachers, buffs, the world at large)


3.      How often do you estimate you post messages on HISTORY per month?


4.      What percentage of your postings does someone reply to?  (a guess)


5.      What percentage of your postings are replies to someone else postings?
        (another guess)


6.      What clues from list members do you use to determine your audience for
        messeges you post on HISTORY?


7.      What kind of reponse do you try to elicit from your audience? (i.e.
        understanding of your views, a reply on the list, a private reply)


8.      What do you do to get your potential audience's attention so that they
        read your message and respond accordingly?


9.      How does/has your process of determining your audience change:


        A.      as you became more comfortable with the medium of electonic
                mail?


        B.      as you became more aware of the character of the
                membership of the list (students, teaching faculty, researchers,
                etc.)?

        C.      over the evolution of discussion of specific topics?


10.     How has your electronic mail reading habits as traffic on listservs
        has grown?


11.     What effect of the knowledge of discussions being archived have on
        your posting of messages on HISTORY?


12.     How do feel about those who read but do not post messages on the list?
        Do you ever write postings for readers with no expectation of a
        response?       Please comment.
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