A Thank You From One Of Our Own

Remember when watishisto Peter asked us for a little assistance as he worked on his master’s research? Well he’s finished now and wanted to extend his thanks (and share the results).

Hi Guys!

You may recall my post a month or two earlier (I don’t even remember, it’s been a blur) asking for people to participate in the research for my dissertation. The good news is that so many of you agreed to help! The bad news is, there is no bad news.

Now I wanted to take the chance to thank all of you guys for your incredible response, without you guys my work literally would not have been possible. My work, generally, aimed to find out if social capital was created in an online fan community, essentially can the “capital” created by the relationships formed in a community such as this one be used by it’s participants to achieve their goals and support one another. If you want the full answer you’ll to read it, but ostensibly the answer is yes, and this project proves that it does, sadly I can’t use my research to validate my research, so I had to actually talk to you guys 😉

I’m not just thanking those who did participate but all of you, because without all of you there would not be the vibrant and, in my opinion, wonderful community you find here at HB&HB. I really feel communities like this are not just fun but also important and can really be a positive in the lives of the people are members of it.

On that note, a word for Lozil and Maisougio, who have been instrumental in creating what you find here, they are awesome, hard-working, and above all caring people who have something they can be proud of.

You will see a link below to my dissertation, I hope you can all read it, and even more, that you don’t fall asleep. If you see typos, and there will be typos, don’t even let me know, it’s already submitted and at this point good riddance! Some of you may recognize yourselves, though there are pseudonyms, some names may be familiar too as I plumbed the names of WAGs as well as members of the Canadian and US women’s national teams. Enjoy!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/174475251/Peter-Jette-Dissertation

Once again, you guys are amazing and I cannot thank you enough for your help, it meant and means so much to me!

Peter

And thank you, Peter, for making our community the subject of your research – it’s a huge honor. You’d better get a first out of this or we’ll storm Birkbeck! 🙂 We’re so proud of you! Let’s all give our fellow watishisto a huge round of applause for a job well done (and a hearty mazel tov on that Master’s).

– Lozil