[LINK] Fwd: Request: Survey on AI and Democracy

[Roger Clarke]

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Subject: 	Request: Survey on AI and Democracy
Date: 	Wed, 28 May 2025 23:56:01 +0000
From: 	Cory Alpert <cory.alpert at student.unimelb.edu.au>
To: 	Cory Alpert <cory.alpert at student.unimelb.edu.au>

Hello!

I’m a researcher at the University of Melbourne looking at the impact of 
AI on democracy. We’re conducting a pilot survey to better understand 
how Australians are interacting with social media algorithms and how 
that might be related to their political decision-making. I’m reaching 
out to ask for your help in sharing this survey with your members or 
with community members that your organization might be in contact with.

SURVEY: https://q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_ex2wzN7MWlgStoi 
<https://q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_ex2wzN7MWlgStoi>

This survey has been approved by the University of Melbourne Ethics 
Committee. It is a two-step process in order to protect the identity of 
any participants. Anyone who chooses to take the survey will first enter 
their name and email address to be assigned a participant ID. They will 
then be sent a link to the main survey, where they will enter their 
participant ID in order to complete the survey. The data will not be 
linked or stored together, so participants cannot be identified with 
their answers. Please note that sometimes it takes up to 15 minutes for 
the system to send the main survey link – this is because of the gap 
between the two surveys and helps keep participant information safe.

This is a pilot study that we are asking community members to take in 
order to help us refine our study before it goes out to a random sample 
of Australians in order to have scientific validity. We are just looking 
for as many people from as many backgrounds as possible to take this 
survey so that we can be sure that our questions are well-honed when it 
goes out later this year.

Any help in getting this survey to your communities would be very much 
appreciated! If you know of someone who might be in a good position to 
help share this survey, please feel free to forward this email or reply 
to me, and I’ll get in touch with them.

The survey link again: 
https://q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_ex2wzN7MWlgStoi 
<https://q.surveys.unimelb.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_ex2wzN7MWlgStoi>

Thank you!

Cory Alpert

PhD Candidate | University of Melbourne


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