Help! Need Christians to take survey for my book!

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GameProf

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[Apologies for cross-posting, but I was told it was best to put this announcement in a few different forums!]

I’m a gamer and media professor writing a book on video games from a Christian perspective. One of my chapters is on video games and community, and to write it, I need your help!

I’ve set up a survey at http://app.fluidsurveys.com/surveys/kevinschut/games-community-christians/. It takes about 10 to 20 minutes to complete, and it’s all about how Christians play video games with other people and the kind of gaming communities they’re a part of. If you choose to participate, you may take the survey anonymously, and even if you choose to leave some identification, your real identity will remain completely confidential when I publish.

As an extra incentive, I’m offering all participants the chance to win a $50 gift certificate for Game Stop.

I really want to give Christian gamers a chance to speak for themselves about their gaming. This research is legit and above-board, the ethics of the project have been reviewed by the Research Ethics Board at my university (http://www.twu.ca), and as you can see from the questions, there’s nothing secret or weird going on here. However, if you’re not sure, you can check out my profile at (http://www.twu.ca/directory/faculty/kevin-schut.html) and you are welcome to send me emails about the project at ChristianGameCommunity@gmail.com (a temporary email that I’ll close when the project is over).

I need responses completed by Friday, November 4, although I may take a few late submissions. PLEASE HELP ME OUT AND CIRCULATE THIS ANNOUNCEMENT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN THINK OF!

Thanks so much for your time!


Kevin Schut
Trinity Western University
 
I just finished up the survey. I do have to say that the questions posed indicate you have the potential to write up a pretty thoughtful book :)

I've seen a few similar to this before, but even from the phrasing of the questions you could tell they were obviously from an outsider's perspective, and probably nothing more than entrapment.
 
Well, I am a gamer, so I'm not trying to trick anyone into making other gamers look dumb or bad. I am, however, more of a solo video gamer, so I'm a bit of an outsider--although I've participated in and read enough forum posts and played enough multiplayer stuff to have an idea of what's out there--so that's part of the reason I need this survey.

I hope the book is thoughtful. On good days I think it will be. Other times I think it must all be muddled or obvious. We'll see when it's done, I guess. Thanks very much for taking the survey!
 
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