=====================================================begin========== 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. 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