On another forum, there was a request to distribute information about this survey. I hope that some of you will fill it out and help their project.

Thanks!

--sfrose

Dear Gamer,

We want to invite you to take part in our survey 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