Too Many Girls!
>> Saturday, July 11, 2009
I have decided that I have too many emerging adult girls in my facebook connections and not enough boys.
My paper on emerging adults and Canadian publishing kept running into issues because of my not having been able to push the Internet survey bit through the Ethics committee's process - I had to axe that part of my application in order to get approval to do anything. Yesterday I hit upon a solution - a way of gathering data about what fiction emerging adults are reading: I logged into the weRead application in facebook and was able to copy & paste the titles/authors for all of my connections who are in the emerging adult group. Which gives me a lot of what I needed to work with - except for the fact that I only have a very few EA males as connections at all and not one of them uses the weRead app.
If you happen to have any 18 - 25 yo (preferably Canadian, but not necessarily) male friends/family/connections that use weRead (or Shelfari or any other such app) I sure could use your help to make a connection with them (assuming they don't mind) .... all I'm doing is making a list of the books in their collections - I'm not allowed to actually interview or anything :(
I think I only have one, now that my husband no longer qualifies - my brother-in-law and I don't even know if he's on facebook. He is in the army, though, so, if he is, I might be able to get you more.
What was the rationale for not allowing a proper survey?