I know people have varying feelings about being the subject of research, but I've not run across a student analysing conventions as a culture before, so if anyone wants to lend her a hand, please drop her a line. It sounds rather interesting to me - conventions are a break from the mundane world, I love that atmosphere in which you can be who you want to be and dress as you like with nobody assuming anything other than that you love to dress up.
Judith (still off list with the usual aches and pains - went to see an assessor for the Open University today who had several intelligent ideas for ideas to help with the typing pain. They do equipment grant for students with disabilities and she sounded quite optimistic. Fingers crossed.)
dear Judith
hi my names hannah and I'm at Staffordshire University, at the moment I'm doing a module where I have to research a chosen culture. I have chosen to look at the types of people who attend sci-fi conventions and why they go. I have been to two myself, Who's 7 in 96 and deliverance in 98.
I am finding it extremely hard to find people who have been to conventions and also to find information on the web.
Please could you put a note on the site asking anyone who wants to, to get in contact with me by e-mail and just write a short paragraph letting me know a few reasons why they go, how often they go and what kind of person they are i.e. age, proffesion so that I can get an idea of the type of person they are.
I would prefer any mail to be sent to : madge968@hotmail.com
Thanks very much and your views or advice would be very much appreciated,
Hannah Keely.