Phase 04: Collect Identity Information on Volunteers

Keywords

* Identity Taxonomies

* Political Affiliation / Voting Behavior
* Views on Iraq War
* Geography
* Worldviews & Value Systems
* Race, Gender, etc.

* Drupal Content Sorting

Intention

* Gather some essential identity metrics for the volunteer user group.
* Implement methods and filtering mechanisms to analyze patterns within various different identity subgroups

* What common ground do pro-war and anti-war volunteers share in their grievances about the media?
* Where are the critical points of departure on this issue?
* Can points of departure be quantified in terms of different opinions on the source credibility and perceived quality of information?
* What kind of insights could a qualitative analysis of volunteer-provided metadata filtered by identity provide?
* What do all the pro-war volunteers think about Bill Plante Soundbite #0140?

* Address diversity gaps after gathering more volunteer identity information.

* Maintain a balance of ideological diversity to at least 75% to 25% while shooting for an ideal split of 50% to 50%.
* Maintain a balance of gender diversity to at least 67% to 33% while shooting for an ideal split of 50% to 50%.
* (Suggestions for metrics for likely and ideal levels of racial diversity?)
* Address disparities of class diversity and the digital divide in Phase 10

What I have

* A Drupal infrastructure
* A brief discussion with a couple of Activist Technologists (I intend to discuss this more with them.)

What I need

* A better understanding of existing identity efforts.
* Insights into the challenges to capturing and describing online identity
* Drupal software mechanisms to sort through node content according to different identity filters
* Techniques for maximizing diversity of volunteers

Questions

* Could identity information help inform a tiered communications strategy as proposed by this theory of Integral Communications
* Could an abbreviated version of these value surveys measure worldviews?
* Is it possible to use worldview taxonomies such as Spiral Dynamics to describe different identities?
* Can identity be collected through folksonomy tags coming from other users?

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