{"id":17927,"date":"2011-12-01T00:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=17927"},"modified":"2011-12-03T02:13:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T07:13:11","slug":"survey-the-impact-of-blogging-on-mormon-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2011\/12\/survey-the-impact-of-blogging-on-mormon-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey: The Impact of Blogging on Mormon Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mason is studying the effect of the bloggernacle on Mormon Studies, has put together a questionnaire, and is seeking responses from graduate students. Here is a preface from Dr. Mason, the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the January 2012 meeting of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchhistory.org\/conferences-meetings\/\" target=\"blank\">American Society for Church History<\/a>, I&#8217;ll be on a panel called &#8220;Teaching Mormonism in a Digital Age.&#8221;  In my comments I&#8217;ll be considering the impact of the &#8220;bloggernacle&#8221; on Mormon studies, specifically in regard to the current generation of graduate students.  I have designed the following questionnaire to get a better handle on why people read Mormon blogs and what they get out of them.  The questionnaire is for any graduate student, full or part time, LDS or non-LDS, in any academic field.  The informed consent form on the first page will explain more, or you can contact me at patrick.mason@cgu.edu with any questions.  Thanks for participating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To participate in the study, follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheet\/viewform?hl=en_US&#038;formkey=dFZNVHAwTURvQVhhaVhmYms4Nzd1Rmc6MQ#gid=0\" target=\"blank\">link to the questionnaire<\/a>. The questionnaire will open in your browser as a Google Document, and is submitted automatically when you click \u201cSubmit\u201d at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Mason is studying the effect of the bloggernacle on Mormon Studies, has put together a questionnaire, and is seeking responses from graduate students. Here is a preface from Dr. Mason, the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies at Claremont Graduate University: At the January 2012 meeting of the American Society for Church History, I&#8217;ll be on a panel called &#8220;Teaching Mormonism in a Digital Age.&#8221; In my comments I&#8217;ll be considering the impact of the &#8220;bloggernacle&#8221; on Mormon studies, specifically in regard to the current generation of graduate students. I have designed the following questionnaire to get a better handle on why people read Mormon blogs and what they get out of them. The questionnaire is for any graduate student, full or part time, LDS or non-LDS, in any academic field. The informed consent form on the first page will explain more, or you can contact me at patrick.mason@cgu.edu with any questions. Thanks for participating. To participate in the study, follow this link to the questionnaire. The questionnaire will open in your browser as a Google Document, and is submitted automatically when you click \u201cSubmit\u201d at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17933,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions\/17933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}