Dear all,
I am Yong Kwang and I am a current
postgraduate student at Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim
Wee School of Communication and Information.
As part of my Master of Science
programme at the Nanyang Technological University, I am conducting
an empirical study on the use and non-use of Twitter through an
online survey. The survey is expected to take up 5 minutes of your
time, and I hope that you would kindly agree to participate in the
survey and contribute data to the research.
Your participation is important
and greatly appreciated because it will contribute to understanding
within the academic community on why Internet users use or do not
use Twitter.
I would also like to address
privacy concerns that you may have. All information provided will
be treated with the strictest confidentiality and the questions
that will be asked have been vetted by the University's
Institutional Review Board (IRB)[1] to ensure compliance with
research ethical guidelines and requirements. Furthermore, your
anonymity is guaranteed through 2 ways. Firstly, there is no
question in the survey questionnaire to elicit personal information
or on your identity to allow researchers to identify you. Secondly,
data analysis and findings will be based on aggregated and
summarized data.
Lastly, the survey can be accessed
at http://www.surveymonkey.com/tweets. Thank you and I look forward
to your participation.
[1] See
http://research.ntu.edu.sg/GuidelinesnForms/Pages/default.aspx for
more information on and an introduction to
NTU-IRB.