In March and April 1997, I sent around a questionaire to 282 occult-related
e-mail addresses. Addressees were surfers-only, maintainers of large and/or
smaller web sites and also people who run a -L of their own.
The questions did contain some word shells/euphemisms into which the receiver
could project his own concepts: "active", "passive", "consumation", "occultism",
"inspiring" etc. Some of my questions were "suggestive" questions regarding my
essay on "The McDonaldisation of Occulture". Since my
reputation as an observer of the "Caliphate" might have hindered some of the
members of this organisation to answer to my questionaire, the reader of the
answers published here must bear that background in mind.
59 people have answered = 21% of 282.
- 83% consider themselves explicitely "active", 11,7% "passive" consumers
of the Web.
- 42,4% have a definitely "positive" opinion on the occult
netculture ("creativity"), 30,5% a rather "negative" one.
- 47,5% do somehow complain about the "self-referentialistic" aspect
of the web sites. 13,6% find it "useful".
- 37,3% do explicitely think that occultists have a "different
approach" to the Internet than the "average" user.
- Those who maintain a web presence of their own report mostly one
("zero"/"few"/"very little") "inspiring reaction(s)" to their presence per month (except 4
examples with more than 0-1 such mails: 20, 30, 50, 600).
- 8,5% have asked back-answers. 2 participants wanted to know where/when
the results of this questionaire are going to be published.
Of course, this "analysis" is not an academic one. I just wanted to collect a
somewhat general "feeling" of what's "going on" in the "electric Occulture".
You might find here not only my questionaire but also a collection of the most
impressive and most significant answers . Let me say Thank you very much.
See also the Collection
of 36 Re-Collections
Playgame of an O.T.O.-Fata Morgana, Statistics, Censorship, Name Dropping
Fetish, Self-Induction, Stigma and Rôleplay
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