rl559
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Entheogens and the internet, a preliminary investigation into the relationship between technology, spirituality and psychedelics.
Privacy concerns:
I am conducting research for my final year undergraduate dissertation. All information which I gather will be stored securely and identities anonymised. Although the informed consent form for this study requires a name to be provided alongside a signature, these are NOT required for online participants. If you are comfortable providing your name, you can type it into the word document or simply choose a pseudonym.
I will be using extracts to quote in my paper; however no names or identifying remarks will be included or required for the completion of the questionnaire. Please feel free to leave blank any questions which you do not wish to answer.
Should you have any queries about the nature of this project, I can be contacted via email at [email protected]. Whilst my academic supervisor, Oliver Smith, can be contacted via the following means: email: [email protected] & Tel: +44 (0)1904 324737.
The University can be contacted by post:
Department of Sociology
Wentworth College
University of York
Heslington
YORK. YO10 5DD
Research aims:
The aims of this short two page questionnaire are to examine entheogenic consumption and practices in contemporary society. There are a number of issues which make the subject of entheogens pertinent for study in the current climate. There has been a recent revival of scientific interest in the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelic drugs and a growing number of chemical derivatives are becoming available to an increasing number of people both on and offline.
Accompanying this there have been moral panics in the media and lobbying to impose bans on certain categories of drugs due to deaths and casualties from consumption. Whilst this has long been the case I wish to question the inter-relations between online commerce, free horizontally based online communication and changes in religious practice and what this means for the psychedelic culture.
Participation
If you are happy to participate in this research questionnaire please download the Informed Consent Form from this site: http://www.box.com/s/cd4821a7038f68d4059b and return to myself at [email protected]
Following completion of this form the questionnaire can be found here and should be returned to myself at the same email address: http://www.box.com/s/dc4dfa5803a481213cdb
I would have preferred to use a survey website but Survey Monkey, the main one, imposes limits on free accounts and some of the truly free competitors seem relatively unreputable. Thus I have decided to upload the questions in Microsoft word (.doc) format online. If you would prefer I can email this document along with the informed consent form directly to you, simply email me at [email protected].
If you require a different document format this should be possible, just email me and I will attempt to convert it to a suitable file type.
Thanks,
Richard.
Privacy concerns:
I am conducting research for my final year undergraduate dissertation. All information which I gather will be stored securely and identities anonymised. Although the informed consent form for this study requires a name to be provided alongside a signature, these are NOT required for online participants. If you are comfortable providing your name, you can type it into the word document or simply choose a pseudonym.
I will be using extracts to quote in my paper; however no names or identifying remarks will be included or required for the completion of the questionnaire. Please feel free to leave blank any questions which you do not wish to answer.
Should you have any queries about the nature of this project, I can be contacted via email at [email protected]. Whilst my academic supervisor, Oliver Smith, can be contacted via the following means: email: [email protected] & Tel: +44 (0)1904 324737.
The University can be contacted by post:
Department of Sociology
Wentworth College
University of York
Heslington
YORK. YO10 5DD
Research aims:
The aims of this short two page questionnaire are to examine entheogenic consumption and practices in contemporary society. There are a number of issues which make the subject of entheogens pertinent for study in the current climate. There has been a recent revival of scientific interest in the therapeutic possibilities of psychedelic drugs and a growing number of chemical derivatives are becoming available to an increasing number of people both on and offline.
Accompanying this there have been moral panics in the media and lobbying to impose bans on certain categories of drugs due to deaths and casualties from consumption. Whilst this has long been the case I wish to question the inter-relations between online commerce, free horizontally based online communication and changes in religious practice and what this means for the psychedelic culture.
Participation
If you are happy to participate in this research questionnaire please download the Informed Consent Form from this site: http://www.box.com/s/cd4821a7038f68d4059b and return to myself at [email protected]
Following completion of this form the questionnaire can be found here and should be returned to myself at the same email address: http://www.box.com/s/dc4dfa5803a481213cdb
I would have preferred to use a survey website but Survey Monkey, the main one, imposes limits on free accounts and some of the truly free competitors seem relatively unreputable. Thus I have decided to upload the questions in Microsoft word (.doc) format online. If you would prefer I can email this document along with the informed consent form directly to you, simply email me at [email protected].
If you require a different document format this should be possible, just email me and I will attempt to convert it to a suitable file type.
Thanks,
Richard.
