Cataclysm, a time for Democracy!


Ok, even though Cataclysm is more undemocratic lore-wise, than the previous expansions (with even more tension between the two factions with the new Warchief and all) I still think it’s time for us to actually map how we, the players, actually perceive and interest ourselves in democratic values and norms. Are we as a whole more interested in what goes on around ourselves in both the real world society as well as on the servers? Are we more found of democracy than non-players? These are questions previously unresearched in the academic world and it’s time someone took the initiative to really measure these kinds of things and guess what? You could be a part of that initiative! 

In order to map how World of Warcraft affects these different variables I have created a survey that will measure different democratic values as well as how these different values are affected by the game. But in order for me to conduct this research and draw any conclusions, I need You to answer the survey! And luckily for us all, the survey will only take about 5 minutes to complete and you can find it right here: 

http://www.easyresearch.se/s.asp?WID=794295&Pwd=11554819 

So do what many other guilds already have done (including Paragon) and just click the link and start answering away, help me out with my research about political science and World of Warcraft and together we might be able to present some ground-breaking results! 

Remember, you as members of the World of Warcraft-community are unique and your answers can not be replaced by someone else’s. 

/Best Regards Sebastian “Zeotrix” 

If you want to know more about the project, please visit wowdemocracy.wordpress.com 

Or if you want to go directly to the survey: 
http://www.easyresearch.se/s.asp?WID=794295&Pwd=11554819


Comments

Really interesting! I'm really happy I had the time to take the survey in the middle of all the raiding and gearing my character up.

I strongly urge everybody to participate, Zeotrix here is doing important job and I bet the data will be interesting to see once it's out. Gotta hand it out to all the researchers we have on the site for all the hard work they've done.

This looks pretty interesting. I look forward to the April 2011 follow-up.

Nice sly comment about the "account being hacked" 100% unrelated to your line of questions.

What do you mean? How is that unrelated to the project? I think it is very important to see how many of the respondents get subjected to hacking since that, in many ways, can change how you feel about the game and other players.

/Sebastian

Excellent, straight forward and easy to understand survey! Excellent job!

Will be sure to forward this to everyone I know :)

Awesome Kazkix!