Hi All,

Thanks again for your participation in the survey - it's now closed, and I'll be working on the data analysis over the next few days. Hopefully I'll have something to share very soon!

There were a few questions about the section on media outlets - I've got a detailed outline of how media was being measured in the paper, which I'm happy to share with anyone who's interested (just e-mail me at sarahmye [at] usc.edu).

But the short answer is, the objective was not to look at media consumption as a way of assessing how well informed users are (that would have required a very different and much longer survey), but instead to look at exposure to a broad range of media, including traditional, financial and tech outlets. I'll be sure to discuss this when I have the data, but I would anticipate that some people tend to focus more closely and deeply on a few news outlets (as @Soros Shorts and @thresher rightly point out) while others read more broadly.

@ruletheworld, you make a good point, and it's a real challenge for researchers to study news habits when they've become so highly networked. In this case, it wouldn't matter too much since clicking through links from one site to another would all count as exposure.

Anyways, more soon and feel free to post/email me if you have any more questions!

Sarah

The survey will only be open for one more day, so if you haven't participated yet it is still available at: https://usc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9KPy7dn2S6DPPo1

The more participants, the better the results will be - I'll be posting the initial findings shortly after the survey closes.

Thanks very much to everyone that has participated so far!

Thanks so much for warm welcome everyone, I really appreciate it!

@tokeweed, I actually hadn't heard of Ripple before, but will definitely spend some time looking in to it since it sounds like just the type of thing I've been studying - thanks for sharing!

@R0yalAir, I'm actually relatively new (only in my first year as a doctoral student) so I haven't had much published yet - though I've got a few things in the pipeline. I'll definitely share more as soon as I can, starting with the initial results of this project early next month.

I am still looking for more responses over the next few days, so if anyone is interested and hasn't taken it yet the survey is still available at https://usc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9KPy7dn2S6DPPo1

Thank you to all that have participated so far!

Hi roslinpl! Just posted on it over in the general forum - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527796.msg5859220#msg5859220. If you have any questions or want to chat more, feel free to reply/PM me?

Cheers!

Hi guys!

Just introduced myself over in the newbie section (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=527738.msg5858320#msg5858320); I’m currently a PhD student at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. I’m doing some research on alternative economies and technology, and have put together a survey to understand how Bitcoin users’ habits relate to their financial, economic, and news habits outside the platform.

The survey is completely anonymous and should take about 10 mins. to complete. I’ll make the results available to anybody who’s interested in them as soon as the survey closes in early April. It's available at this link: https://usc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9KPy7dn2S6DPPo1

I’d like to get as wide a range of responses as possible so apologies if you see this cross-posted on a couple other forums – please feel free to share the survey link with other Bitcoin users.

Any questions, feel free to PM me or contact me directly. Thanks so much in advance for your help!

Best,

Sarah

Hi there!

I'm a PhD student in communication at USC Annenberg really interested in alternative economies and technology. I've been researching Bitcoin over the course of the last year and have been following this forum, but this is my first time posting.

I'm hoping to contribute work that's grounded in the community, since a lot of the work that's been published on Bitcoin so far has been pretty technical. I'm especially interested in what Bitcoin means for how we understand money in the post-financial crisis era.

As a heads up, I'll be posting a survey soon that's part of my first foray into the project - I would love to hear all of your thoughts! Any results I gather will be shared with the community, and no identifiable information will be collected.

Looking forward to meeting you guys!

Sarah