Public Survey Evaluation

 What worked well –

• Representing the brand FA through uniform and logo –
• Set out of survey – selected questions
• Time and location, after school hours not too late, centre of town
• Confidence – performing in roles, helped having both of us
• Form of documentation, photography was subtle to public

What didn’t work as well –

• Lighting for photography, dusk due to time and season make photographs unclear, especially as it was subtle – long distance shots
• After various rejections, subconsciously prejudging peoples willingness to participate, resulting in bias results.
• Could have done this performance survey in multiple locations to collect varied results.

Additional comments –

• Security guard moved us after 10 minutes outside drake circus as it was a no survey area, didn’t ask to see ID.
• Interesting patterns watching people avoid walking near us.
• People lying about their use of Facebook to avoid answering questions on our survey when approached.
• Interesting to see publics engagements with our uniforms and badges as we walked through town to location.
• Public’s assumptions that we were from Facebook, no one asked us what organization we were with.

Public Survey – Planning

 

When planning for our second event, a public survey, it was important to consider our intentions and reasons for performing in this way. As founders of FA we felt this was essential for the early work and research of the organisation, to engage with the public and find out the scale of the awareness of social identity construction on the streets of Plymouth.

The mindmaps above illustrate some of the planning and consideration into the public survey.

It was important that we were selective with the questions in the survey – that they were easy to understand, quick to answer and not too many questions so we didn’t take up too much time. We selected 6 questions from the discussions we had in the Facebookaholics Anonymous group, these can be seen below in the survey (link to word document).

Public Survey

Performing as FA staff we maintained consistency and wore blue ‘facebook blue’ tshirts, badges and had clipboards when performing the survey.