Invitation to Participate in a Digital Humanities Study

[Karen Taylor]

Dear Colleague,

Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) is a large-scale
collaborative research project in the digital humanities directed by Dr. Ray
Siemens, Department of English, University of Victoria, and funded by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Our
research team is examining the complex processes of human engagement with
information that is available digitally. Specifically, we are interested in
identifying and understanding the ways in which social sciences and
humanities readers engage with forms such as the electronic scholarly
edition, the academic monograph, scholarly journal and essay collections,
and electronic literature.

 

With this letter, we are inviting you to complete a short survey about how
you experience and use digital resources in the context of your research.
The findings of this survey will be used to improve existing digital tools
and to derive requirements for prospective tools and resources that we hope
will be of benefit to you and other researchers.

 

The questionnaire should take approximately twenty minutes to complete. If
you are willing to participate, you will find it online at <
<http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm>
http://infopoll.net/live/surveys/s34325.htm>. Your identity will be kept
confidential.  All documents and participants will be identified only by
code number. Digital data records will be kept on password-protected hard
drives and on disks stored in locked filing cabinets. Only the principal
investigator and the co-investigators will have access to the data. If you
have any concerns about your treatment or rights as a research participant,
you may contact the Research Subject Information Line in the UBC Office of
Research Services at 604-822-8598. Your participation in this study is
entirely voluntary and you may refuse to participate or withdraw from the
study at any time. Your completion and submission of the survey will
indicate your consent to participate.

In consideration of your time, you may enter a draw for a $150.00 gift
certificate from an online bookstore upon completion of the questionnaire.

 

We look forward to the prospect of your participation in this study. Please
feel free to contact the INKE Graduate Research Assistant, Karen Taylor, at
any time if you have questions about this research: 604-737-2873 (British
Columbia, Canada) or <katay164 at interchange.ubc.ca>.

 

Best regards,

 

 

Dr. Teresa Dobson for the INKE Team

Associate Professor

Director, Digital Literacy Centre

University of British Columbia

c/o Department of Language & Literacy

2125 Main Mall,

Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4

 

 

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