Survey about the influences of virtual life on real life and vice versa - please help us with our project   

Dear Gamer,

We want to invite you to take part in our survey on 
http://www.gamingrealities.net in which we explore the connections 
between real and virtual life for a lab course at our university.

Our survey has three sections (career, friend- / relationships, groups), 
which can be answered individually and should take 5 to 10 minutes each 
- although we hope that you might find time to answer all sections.
Furthermore we would ask you to spread the word and let your friends 
know of our survey - be it your clan or guild or any other community you 
are in, whether if it is about gaming or something else. Simply copy 
this text and add some personal words (also available as BB forum 
version at our site).

Let us offer you a bit information about the survey itself.
We set it up because today real and virtual life become more and more 
connected and strongly influence each other. We chose games as research 
area because they are among the most well built virtual realities we 
know today, and gaming communities have many interesting similarities to 
real life communities.
While the areas of our survey may not be genuinely new, we approach them 
from rarely taken directions. Furthermore we are especially focusing on 
drawing connections between these areas to gain new insights.

We hope to see you on our site.
Your Gamingrealities-Team

date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:42:37 +0200   author:   Tobias Vaegs

Re: Survey about the influences of virtual life on real life and vice versa - please help us with our project   

On Jun 15, 3:42 am, Tobias Vaegs  wrote:
> Dear Gamer,
>
> We want to invite you to take part in our survey onhttp://www.gamingrealities.netin which we explore the connections
> between real and virtual life for a lab course at our university.
>
> Our survey has three sections (career, friend- / relationships, groups),
> which can be answered individually and should take 5 to 10 minutes each
> - although we hope that you might find time to answer all sections.
> Furthermore we would ask you to spread the word and let your friends
> know of our survey - be it your clan or guild or any other community you
> are in, whether if it is about gaming or something else. Simply copy
> this text and add some personal words (also available as BB forum
> version at our site).
>
> Let us offer you a bit information about the survey itself.
> We set it up because today real and virtual life become more and more
> connected and strongly influence each other. We chose games as research
> area because they are among the most well built virtual realities we
> know today, and gaming communities have many interesting similarities to
> real life communities.
> While the areas of our survey may not be genuinely new, we approach them
> from rarely taken directions. Furthermore we are especially focusing on
> drawing connections between these areas to gain new insights.
>
> We hope to see you on our site.
> Your Gamingrealities-Team

could you please not spam? This is not this kind of you guys' game!
This is not a virtual game so there's no virtual life here.

date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:17:15 -0700 (PDT)   author:   KoKs

Re: Survey about the influences of virtual life on real life and vice versa - please help us with our project   

KoKs wrote:
> On Jun 15, 3:42 am, Tobias Vaegs  wrote:
>> Dear Gamer,
>>
>> We want to invite you to take part in our survey onhttp://www.gamingrealities.netin which we explore the connections
>> between real and virtual life for a lab course at our university.
>>
>> Our survey has three sections (career, friend- / relationships, groups),
>> which can be answered individually and should take 5 to 10 minutes each
>> - although we hope that you might find time to answer all sections.
>> Furthermore we would ask you to spread the word and let your friends
>> know of our survey - be it your clan or guild or any other community you
>> are in, whether if it is about gaming or something else. Simply copy
>> this text and add some personal words (also available as BB forum
>> version at our site).
>>
>> Let us offer you a bit information about the survey itself.
>> We set it up because today real and virtual life become more and more
>> connected and strongly influence each other. We chose games as research
>> area because they are among the most well built virtual realities we
>> know today, and gaming communities have many interesting similarities to
>> real life communities.
>> While the areas of our survey may not be genuinely new, we approach them
>> from rarely taken directions. Furthermore we are especially focusing on
>> drawing connections between these areas to gain new insights.
>>
>> We hope to see you on our site.
>> Your Gamingrealities-Team
> 
> could you please not spam? This is not this kind of you guys' game!
> This is not a virtual game so there's no virtual life here.


The topics in this group sound a lot like they are about video games.
If you're only playing board games here, I apologize. But in that case 
there could still be some video gamers here or people who know video gamers.

Tobi

date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:09:00 +0200   author:   Tobias Vaegs

Re: Survey about the influences of virtual life on real life andvice versa - please help us with our project   

Tobias Vaegs wrote:

> The topics in this group sound a lot like they are about video games.

No, about 99% of the legitimate posts here over the years have been
about computer games not video games.  However, clans and guilds are
more likely to be associated with online computer games specifically
multi-player role playing games.  I'm afraid you won't get much help
here or in any of the other gaming newsgroups.  People who post here
usually don't like surveys or don't want to spend the time taking them.

date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:48:40 -0300   author:   don