For Science!

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I think this is only crack_van's 2nd off-topic post in the past six years, and so a word of explanation: Last month the neuroscientists who developed this survey got in touch with me through the comm with the idea of distributing a survey to fandom at large. They wanted to share the final data with fandom and other researchers in a fandom-controlled space, and asked if they could do so here. This research will be groundbreaking in their field, and in all of our many discussions over the past month+ they have been unfailingly respectful of fandom's traditions and concerns, and so I was happy to agree.

There's a FAQ explaining their project HERE, and feedback and discussion is invited over on ogi_ogas's journal.

Please repost far and wide!


ETA: Please feel free to continue to comment here as desired. I've posted some additional info and my own thoughts here.

ETA 2: I WAS WRONG.

Comments

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I have to agree that it was not wise for crack_van to endorse this survey. So many things are wrong with it, foremost the facts that they do not know the first thing about fanfiction or its authors and that they are very condescending in their responses to those who voiced questions and concerns about the survey questions. Also, if they are writing a book about "netporn" I'm wondering why they would survey fanfiction in the first place. Are they also surveying those who produce actual "netporn" such as sites with erotic photos and webcams, spanking sites, sexual torture sites, underage sites, sites where people can meet for sex? That's what I think of when I hear the term "netporn" -- not fanfiction which can include erotica but is not usually defined as "porn."

What an insult!