MMORPG/Warcraft Follow-Up Research

rhartshorne · Post by **rhartshorne** » Thu Sep 17, 2009 1:29 pm

Hello all,

I am an Assistant Professor of Instructional Systems Technology at UNC-Charlotte. Along with my colleagues at Wake Forest and Purdue University, we are conducting a follow-up to a study of MMORPGs (specifically WoW) and citizenship participation that we conducted last year. Based on respondent feedback, we have modified our original survey and hope to get a larger and more representative sample of World of Warcraft players.
In an effort to explore parallels between civic leadership and participation in MMORPGs and ‘real-life’, we are surveying guild leaders, guild officers, and guild members of World of Warcraft. This study consists of participants completing a brief (6-12 minute) online, anonymous survey.

For those WoW players who wish to participate in the study simply complete the survey located [url="http://www.surveyshare.com/survey/take/?sid=94111"]here[/url]. All respondents will be again be entered into a raffle to win one of a number (3) of gift certificates to Amazon.com or EB Games, or a six month subscription to your favorite MMORPG (Winner's choice!). To complete the survey, you will first be directed to an Informed Consent form, at the bottom of which is a hyperlink to the survey itself.

For more information about our research, you can visit an interview conducted with the World of Warcraft Vault [url="http://wowvault.ign.com/View.php?view=Columns.Detail&id=256"]here[/url]. Thanks for your participation.

Cheers,

Richard

BountyHunter · Post by **BountyHunter** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 4:21 pm

Intriguing ... a survey to find out if guild leaders are liberals or conservatives.

*Shrug*

rhartshorne · Post by **rhartshorne** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:21 pm

BountyHunter wrote:Intriguing ... a survey to find out if guild leaders are liberals or conservatives.

*Shrug*

We run a number of statistical analyses with the survey data...political tendencies is one of the variables we examine (albeit a rather minor one).

If anyone else is interested in taking the survey (located [url="http://www.surveyshare.com/survey/take/?sid=94111"]here[/url]), it will be open until October 10th. The drawing will take place soon after that.

Cheers,

Richard

darkrauser · Post by **darkrauser** » Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:31 pm

rhartshorne wrote:We run a number of statistical analyses with the survey data...political tendencies is one of the variables we examine (albeit a rather minor one).

If anyone else is interested in taking the survey (located [url="http://www.surveyshare.com/survey/take/?sid=94111"]here[/url]), it will be open until October 10th. The drawing will take place soon after that.

Cheers,

Richard

You really should post this on the official forums. I used to see posts from others doing research in the Off Topic and Welcome to WoW forums. Posting there requires an active WoW account, but I'm sure you can find a WoW player that will. I would post it for you, but I don't play this game anymore. I'm just saying because this website focuses more on single player RPGs. Not a lot of people here even check this forum.