Research Questions
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None of your responses will be shared, published or reproduced without your explicit permission. Please indicate whether you give permission for your anonymized answers to be quoted, in part or in full, in my work on Cyborganic and network society.
If you would prefer your responses NOT be anonymized, and would instead like your name included wherever you are quoted, please indicate that at the top of your responses to whichever of the following questions you choose to answer.
- When and how did you first begin using the Internet?
- Try and think back to those early days and describe what sort of expectations of the Internet you had. Did you think of it in terms of digital culture or the information age, or did you have some other concept of what was going at the time? Do tell.
- When and how did you first get involved with Cyborganic? By which specific individuals were you first linked to Cyborganic?
- What do you think motivated most people to participate in Cyborganic? How did they mostly participate and why, in your opinion?
- Do you think of Cyborganic as a particularly San Francisco thing? Could it have happened else where? Where? What ties, if any, do you see to the rest of the City and region? To its history? What links to other geographic regions can you trace?
- When you first got involved, did you have any specific expectations of hopes about Cyborganic? Or of some other wider or different group? If you did, describe, explain. If you didn't, what motivated your participation?
- Are you still involved with Cyborganic in any way? If so, describe or explain. If not, when and how did your involvement end?
- Can you name, off the top of your head, all the individuals you're still in touch with who you know through Cyborganic? Let's say "in touch" here means you have a current email for them and know what city they live in.
- Describe your professional involvement, if any, with the Internet or technology industry, telling when you began and whether you still work in this sector. Can you describe what it was like working in the industry in the early or mid-1990s versus today? Major changes, major constants, how you see what you're doing? Your role? Send your resume, or a link to it, as a handy way to answer the first part of this question.
- What, if anything, did you learn through or via Cyborganic? I'm interested both in technical knowledge (computer, net, and other professional stuff) as well as any other category of stuff you might have learned about in your involvement with Cyborganic.
- Cyborganic, which became The Cyborganic Corporation in 1995, was popularly known as the Cyborganic community. How do you think of it and can you say anything about the community/corporation dynamic?
- Where are your web pages currently hosted? What about your email?
- Are you currently on any mailing lists like the Cyborganic cc-list? If so, can you name or describe them briefly?
Profile & Demographic Information
Privacy Policy:
None of this demographic data will ever be referenced, published, or otherwise shared on an individually identifiable basis. It will only be used to give an overall profile of the people associated with Cyborganic, for example, the average age, residential, and marital status of respondents.
- Your name
- The identity of interviewees will not be revealed, but it is helpful for my research, especially where it enables me to interpret what you say in the wider context of what I know.
- Cyborganic login (if you had one)
- Spacebar login (if you had one)
- Did you ever use Cyborganic for web hosting? For email? If yes, from when until when?
- Birth year
- Gender
- Occupation
- Marital status
- If married, in what year?
- Do you have kids? If so, how many?
- Do you own a home?
- What city do you live in today?
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