Superheroes and Terrorism PhD: Volunteers Needed :)
Hello,
My name is Nicholas Gray and I am a PhD student at the department of Geography, University College London. I am here today to ask you, the community, to help me with my PhD research project. I am interested in comic audience’s engagements with themes of terrorism within the Superhero genre. My research is a product of the first decade of our current centuries War on Terror and the effect that this has had on global audiences and media, and in particular comic books.
I am myself a superhero comic fan, having caught the bug in 2001 following a drunken argument over who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman. Thus I found comics to prove Batman can and has kicked Superman into touch on a number of occasions. My favourite comics are Batman and Robin, Secret Six and Booster Gold (although I am to lose two of these come September) and am looking forward to the return of Nightwing. I am therefore here as both fan and scholar to ask for the wider communities views on these themes and ideas of terrorism within the superhero genre of comics.
I have created a series of online questionnaires, one of which is designed specifically for comic readers to express their views. I was therefore wondering if you could spare approximately 15 minutes of your time to complete this questionnaire. As a sweetener all those that complete the questionnaire will be entered into a draw for a £10 Amazon.co.uk (or Amazon.com if not UK based) voucher.
I am UK based, but I am looking for a more global understanding of various issues for the online questionnaire.
The questionnaire is located at:
COMIC FANS QUESTIONNAIRE
tinyurl.com/ComicPhD1
(just copy and paste into the browsers address bar)
This link will take you to the questionnaire (created using Google Documents, and super-long web address shorted via tinyurl) which should be viewable on all major internet browsers and many mobile phone browsers.
If you choose to take part and know of others local to you within household, family and friendship groups that may be interested then please feel free to pass the information of this project onto them.
Further if you have members of your family, household or friendship groups that do not read comics and would be interested In taking part in some research then please direct them to this alternate questionnaire at:
NON-READERS QUESTIONNAIRE
tinyurl.com/ComicPhD2
(please again copy and paste into browser)
I thank you for taking the time to read this post and I thank all those who choose to take part.
Fair enough, your forum and your rules at the end of the day, but this seems to be a good place to find comic fans to get their opinions on these matters for the project.
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Superheroes and Terrorism PhD: Volunteers Needed :)
Jun 23rd, 2011 05:49 PM
