Thanks for volunteering to participate in this survey! There are no "correct" answers to the questions below. What I want to know is your opinion.

Please be assured that your identity (your name and/or e-mail address) will not ever be revealed in connection with your responses to any of these questions.

If I choose to use quotes in my study, I will use pseudonyms for all respondents. Please feel free to answer all of the following questions honestly and in as much detail as you want to. If there's any question you don't understand, e-mail me at afc1@cde.psu.edu and I'll be happy to explain. If you want to add comments about any additional items related to the use of electronic mail that are not covered on this questionnaire, by all means, please feel free to add them!

1. Name

2. E-mail address

3. Gender

a) female

b) male

4. Birthdate

5. City and state where you are primarily located (or city and country, if not inside U.S.)

6. Level of education

7. What is/are your occupation(s)?

8. Do you have access to a computer:

a) at work

b) at home

c) both

d) other (please describe)

9. How would you describe your degree of knowledge of computers?

a) a novice--very little experience

b) some knowledge of computers, but not an expert

c) an expert

10. How long have you been connected to the Internet?

11. Do you use electronic mail primarily:

a) for work-related purposes

b) for social purposes

c) an even balance of both

12. Why do you belong to Cinema-L?

13. How long have you belonged to Cinema-L?

14. How did you find out about Cinema-L?

15. Where is the computer located that you use to access Cinema-L?

16. Is there a particular time of day when you log in to read Cinema-L?

17. How much time do you spend reading or sending Cinema-L messages? (please estimate amount of time per day, or amount of time per week)

18. Do you subscribe to Cinema-L in a listserv format, or access it in a Newsgroup format?

19. If you subscribe to the listserv, do you have your account set to receive individual messages as they arrive, or in digest format (one long message per day)?

20. Can you tell who a message is from?

a) Contributor's name and/or e-mail address is listed before message.

b) Contributor's name and/or e-mail address is listed after message.

c) I can only tell who a message is from if the contributor signs it.

d) Other (explain).

21. Do you read all of the messages, or just certain ones? If you read only certain messages, how do you decide which to read?

22. Are there certain types of messages you avoid reading?

23. On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being lowest and 10 being highest, how "social" do you feel Cinema-L is? Please explain.

24. Do you belong to any other listservs? If so, how many, and how do they compare to Cinema-L in terms of number and quality of social interactions?

25. If you were asked to take a guess at the gender distribution of messages posted to this list (in percentages, considering the average number of messages per day posted by males vs. the average number of messages per day posted by females), what would your "best guess" be (please give percentages)?

a) Do you think the percentages have changed over time? If so, how?

b) If you belong to other lists, how do you think Cinema-L compares to other lists in this regard?

26. How do you think of the other members of Cinema-L?

a) as faceless strangers

b) as casual acquaintances, but not as friends

c) as friends

d) as very good friends

27. If you had to create an analogy in which you compared the use of a listserv to the use of another, preexisting communications technology, which of these do you think it is most like and why? (Quick explanatory note: there is no "correct" answer to this question; I just want your opinion.)

a) face-to-face conversation

b) telephone

c) fax

d) letter writing

e) television

f) movies

g) radio

h) two tin cans and a string

i) other--please explain

28. Have you ever posted a message to Cinema-L? If yes, how often do you post? If no, why don't you post messages?

29. In general, how comfortable do you feel posting messages to the list?

a) very comfortable

b) somewhat comfortable

c) somewhat uncomfortable

d) very uncomfortable

30. Do you ever feel uncomfortable because of any of the social dynamics that occur on the list? If so, please explain.

31. What do you like most about belonging to Cinema-L? Please explain.

32. Are there any aspects of Cinema-L that you don't like? Please explain.

33. Have you ever participated in a flame war on this or another listserv?

34. Have you ever engaged in a romantic flirtation on this or another listserv?

35. Have you ever "met" someone on this listserv (or on another listserv, for that matter) and then arranged to meet that individual in person? If you did arrange to meet, how did your "face-to-face" impressions of that person correspond with the impressions of that person you had formed during the listserv discussions? (Further elaboration on this question is welcome!)

36. Do you ever correspond privately with any members of Cinema-L about subjects that come up on the list?

37. Do you ever share Cinema-L messages with friends who are not list members? If so, what is their attitude or response to the messages you share and/or your membership in the list?

38. Have you ever asked anyone else to join Cinema-L?

39. Have the social dynamics on this listserv changed at all since the time that you began reading Cinema-L?

40. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

Electronic communication will help to bring about world peace.

a) disagree strongly

b) disagree somewhat

c) agree somewhat

d) agree strongly

41. Anything else you'd like to add about your experience on this or other listservs?

You're done!!!!! Thanks for all your help. If I have additional questions, I'll contact you. If you have any questions for me, please drop me a note!