This arrived in my mailbox while I was out of town. It appears to be a worthwhile project. >>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 17:40:16 -0700 >>From: Ken Nolley <knolley@willamette.edu> >>Reply-To: H-NET List for Scholarly Studies and Uses of Media >> <H-FILM@H-NET.MSU.EDU> >> >>Dear List Members: >>The National Geographic Society and a number of social scientists are >>conducting an online survey on migration and modern society, and we >>ask for your help in encouraging as many people as possible to >>participate in an unprecedented effort to gather original scientific >>data on the Internet. >> >>Along with many questions from the General Social Survey, the Survey >>2000 asks questions about mobility, and music, literature and food >>preferences. Survey respondents remain anonymous, though the compiled >>results will be made available on the National Geographic website >>(http://www.nationalgeographic.com/) in a few months. Unlike many >>surveys, the Survey 2000 makes use of the internet's multimedia >>abilities to make the survey fun and efficient. >> >>The survey period will end November 17, 1998 and we hope to have a >>diverse number of people from across the United States and around the >>world complete the questions. Please help us with the outreach effort >>by completing the survey yourself, and by passing on news of this >>project to your family, friends, colleagues or students. >> >>Over 16 Years Old: >>http://survey2000.nationalgeographic.com/survey2000/index.html >> >>Between 5 and 16 Years Old: >>http://survey2000.nationalgeographic.com/survey2000/kids.html >>_________________________________________________ >> >>Survey 2000 >> >>Sociologists and demographers have identified why people move, but >>significant data has not been gathered about the effects of movement. >>One popular theory holds that increased mobility causes a sense of >>isolation and anomie and fragments traditional communities. On the >>other hand, a sense of geographic community may be on the wane, but >>new forms may be developing as people draw their sense of place and >>humanity from different sources. >> >>The survey will address several questions: >> >>* How does migration affect our sense of community? >>* How much are cultural tastes influenced by migration? Is regional >>variety giving way to an homogenized global culture? * Are people >>replacing geographic communities with substitutes such as profession, >>workplace, or the Internet? >> >>Hurdles >> >>We are looking for roughly 18,000 respondents spread across various >>social groups. (Thirty respondents are required within each sub-group >>for the data to be statistically valid.) Utilizing the Society's >>resources, we hope to reach a wide variety of people and urge them to >>help us. >> >>Your support will help us reach as many people as possible. We need >>volunteer sponsors to publicize our survey and host events that offer >>internet access to people who would otherwise not participate in our >>survey. With your assistance we hope to reach out to homes, >>universities, schools, libraries, and recreation, community, and >>senior centers. We want to make October 1998 "Map the Global Village" >>Month. With a concerted effort we can reach our goal. >> >>Participants >> >>Dr. Jim Witte of Northwestern University is spearheading the study and >>preparing the survey. Other participants are as follows: >> >>* Dr. Bethany Bryson, Princeton University. Author of The Sociology >>of Culture. Specialty: examination of shared cultural values through >>music. >> >>* Dr. Wendy Griswold, Northwestern University. Specialty: regional >>literature. >> >>* National Endowment for the Humanities. >> >>* Isabel Wilkerson, New York Times Chicago Bureau Chief and 1994 >>Pulitzer Prize winner, specialist in African-American migration from >>the South. >> >>* Brian Nielson, Northwestern University, Computer Science Department. >> >>* William Bainbridge, National Science Foundation, Sociology Program >>Officer. >> >>* Bonnie Erickson, University of Toronto, Cultural Sociologist. >> >>* Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Quantitative sociologist; >>social networks and surveys on the Net. >> >>* Dr. Mick Couper, Institute for Social Research and Director of Joint >>Survey Research for the Universities of Maryland and Minnesota, >>Sociologist in Survey Methodology. >> >>* Carl Haub, Senior Demographer, Population Reference Bureau. >> >>* Amy Bruckman, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology >> >>* Harm de Blij, Geographer and former Editor of the National >>Geographic Research Journal. >> >>* Dr. Jim Peterson, Vanderbilt University, Cultural Sociologist. >> >>* Phil Agre, University of California, Davis. Internet communications >>and quantitative sociologist. Cheryl Rothwell clrothwell@mindspring.com Logan County, ILGenWeb, coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm Logan County mailing list> LOGAN-L@rootsweb.com Downing mailing list> DOWNING-L@rootsweb.com