Help with research on HP fan fiction

[sociologistff]

Dear Harry Potter fan fiction authors!

My name is Petra Baumann and I’m doing research for my master’s thesis in sociology on Harry Potter fan fiction at the University of Graz, Austria. As a sociologist, I am especially interested in the social background of fan fiction authors: where they come from, how old they are, etc. Through my research I

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[sammychan]

Hallo, ich denke, da du aus Österreich kommst, kann ich deutsch mit dir reden, oder?
Fällt mir nämlich leichter =)

Ich wollte dir nur sagen, dass ich mal in dem Fandom-History-Wiki ein paar Statistiken gefunden hab, auch über Fanfiction-Autoren, welche Lie3blingspairings und so, hier: http://www.fanhistory.com/wiki/Harry_potter

Ich weiß nicht, ob es dir weiterhilft, halt ne Form von Wikipedia, aber vielleicht sind da ja ein paar interessante Quellen dabei.

Ansonsten hoffe ich auf rege Teilnahem an deiner Umfrage, find das selbst total interessant und werde mal hin und wieder deine Site auf Updates überprüfen.
Wünsche dir noch viel Erfolg!

[sociologistff]

Hi!
Vielen Dank für den Hinweis - das ist sehr interessant!

LG,
Petra

[keestone]

Hi, I filled out your questionnaire. I noticed that you didn't really have any options in the education questions for continuing postgraduate students, which in my experience, seems to be a demographic with quite a few fanfic authors in it.

[slashpervert]

I agree.

[sociologistff]

Hi!
It was a tough decision to reduce education to that extent but it was necessary to make the questionnaire both suitable for many different countries and easy to answer.
Best,
Petra

[rissabby]

Hi,

I'd be very interested in seeing the results of your survey, and later your paper. I hope you post it for curious fans. I got here through The Daily Snitch, so if you put a notice there that would be great.

Good luck on your thesis.

[nenagh_breen]

The questionnaire said that you could get demographic insight from our user name, but if you'd like to have more information (hits, their country of origin, etc.) feel free to ask! :) I may not be super popular, but I'd love to help!

~Nenagh

[musesong]

It certainly sounds a worthy project though I suspect many fan fiction writers are going to turn out to be women.

I've never written fan fic myself though I have role-played extensively in the Potterverse, having taken part in one of the very early on-line communities.

Our group there did include teenagers as well as thiose of more mature years. :)