OK, so I finally got approval on my second amendment to my 3-month-old study on political collaboration through a wiki. The recruiting stalled going through the public contacts of political organizations (Plan A), so now we will try to inundate political blogs with a short recruiting message (Plan B). We’ll start here …
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Researchers in Indiana are currently examining the effectiveness of a wiki in helping multiple authors create a political platform. A “wiki†is an internet site that allows multiple authors to edit pages through the web. Although more than a decade old, wiki forums have only recently started to be used widespread for collaboration projects.
Participants in this six-month study, offered by Indiana University in cooperation with 3rdparty.org, are asked to create a new political party platform from scratch. The findings could help improve and innovate political forums in the future. If interested in participating in this experiment, please go to the following web site URL:
http://www.politicexchange.org/politicwiki/consent.cfm
If you have questions at any time about the study or the procedures, you may contact the researcher, Kevin Makice, by sending email to kmakice@indiana.edu.
