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Hi, I apologize for the random post stream. Most of the conviction content was for my personal blog.

-Mod J

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NGL, stuff like this makes me wish we could re-open the poll. Im pretty sure we've closed the project and would have to get IRB again.

But, we found like 160 Newsies fans, pre-UKsies.

(And yes, I have to finish writing it up. In my free time.)

the newsies fandom is far too small i recognise 90% of you from newsies or stage door or musicalcon

like if you’ve been to newsies multiple times and you’ve liked my stuff i defo know who you are 😭😳

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My tags just autocorrected “spot conlon” to “spot goblin” and somehow it feels accurate

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Some Preliminary Results!

We have been busy crunching the numbers, and we’re back with some results! In this post, we’ll talk about some basic demographics of the newsies fandom: Age, Gender, and where they’re from! If you find this interesting, please let us know what you’d like to see in another post.

So… the data.

We conducted a survey of Newsies fans between late May and December 2021. Fans had to be at least 18 years of age and able to provide informed consent. The survey and advertisement were in English. It was shared on various social media platforms. No identifying information (IP addresses, precise locations, birthdates, or names) were collected, although participants were about to answer some free response questions in ways that might have identified them.

You can learn more about the questions and find all the results on Github.

We had 160 unique respondents who consented to participate. (One person did not consent and two people submitted their survey results twice.) You can see spikes and plateaus in the recruitment data; we think most people participated when they saw a reblog or retweet! Most people found the survey through Tumblr.

[ID: A two panel figure. On the left, a plot showing the cumulative number of respondents to the survey over time. The x-axis shows months between May and December 2021, the y-axis shows cumulative number of participants. There are a series of spikes, with the largest jump in May, followed by spikes in August and November/December. The right panel shows a barchart with the number of people who found the survey through Tumblr (n=109), Twitter (n=21), Facebook (n=9), or had it shared by a friend (n=22). End ID]

Age

We asked about age, discretized into groups of 18-21, 22-25, 25-29, 30-34, 35-40, 41-45, and over 45. We were not able to include people under 18 in the survey because of certain quirks of the university ethics approval we received. This means our results are biased away from younger fans, but hopefully also gives a picture of the fandom. More than 60% of our respondents were under 25! So, Newsies seems like a young fandom. However, we also had 12 respondents over 40, maybe meaning that once you’re a fansie, you stick with it.

[ID: A bar chart of ages among survey participants. There are six groups: Ages 18-21 (70 respondents, 43.8%), 22-25 with 28 respondents, 17.5%), 26-30 (20 respondents, 12.5%), 31-35 (12 respondents, 7.5%), 36-40 (18 respondents, 11.2%) and 41 and older (12 respondents, 7.5%). End ID]

Gender

We also asked about gender in two questions: first, “What gender do you identify as?” and second, “Are you trans?.” We allowed some free text responses, as well as the four single choice options. Based on those responses, we added one new category, “Questioning,” based on responses like “IDK, gender is hard” and “I’ll let you know when I do.” We also had two answers which were combined into the genderqueer category. (Our ethics requireed us to collapse unique demographic categories into more common names or otherwise mask individual-level data).

Maybe unsurprisingly, most people who responded were women. More surprisingly, while none of the women who responded were trans, about 60% of the men were. In the pie charts below, the proportion of cis respondents are show in red, the proportion trans are shown in light blue, and black reflects those who chose not to respond; black in the bar charts does not reflect whether someone is cis or trans.

[ID: A bar chart showing gender distributions in the Newsies fandom with pie charts showing transgender identity for each gender. Genders were female (109 people, 68.1% with 100% cis participants); Male (n=12, 7.5%; with 2/3 trans respondents); Nonbinary (n=27, 16.9%; 2 non-respondents, 2/3 respondents were trans); Genderqueer (n=6, 3.8%, 2/3 trans), questioning (n=4, 2.5%), and 2 did not respond. End ID.]

Location

We had respondents all over the world. The map highlights countries respondents were from. The colors are meaningless and simply intended to highlight the locations where people live.

[ID: A world map showing where people who responded to the survey lived. Countries included the US, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, and Australia. End ID]

We were also able to look at US states. People who responded lived in the states that are colored on the map; the colors are once again independent of the number of people.

[ID: States where respondents live. You can find the full list of 35 states here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwdebelius/newsies-survey/main/data/states.txt. END ID]

What’s next?

We have a lot more survey results! If you’d like to access the data, you can find it on our GitHub page. We’ve got the code that was used to analyze this data, plus some more analysis that we didn’t present here.

We’d like to do more of these posts if there’s interest! What other things would you be interested in knowing about: Favorite media, Favorite ships, Favorite characters, queer identities, fandom participation, or something else?

Thanks!

We want to thank everyone who participated in the survey!

We’d also like to thank @color–pals​ for permission to use their lovely color palette!

[newsiesfandomsurvey]

Some Preliminary Results!

We have been busy crunching the numbers, and we’re back with some results! In this post, we’ll talk about some basic demographics of the newsies fandom: Age, Gender, and where they’re from! If you find this interesting, please let us know what you’d like to see in another post.

So... the data.

We conducted a survey of Newsies fans between late May and December 2021. Fans had to be at least 18 years of age and able to provide informed consent. The survey and advertisement were in English. It was shared on various social media platforms. No identifying information (IP addresses, precise locations, birthdates, or names) were collected, although participants were about to answer some free response questions in ways that might have identified them.

You can learn more about the questions and find all the results on Github.

We had 160 unique respondents who consented to participate. (One person did not consent and two people submitted their survey results twice.) You can see spikes and plateaus in the recruitment data; we think most people participated when they saw a reblog or retweet! Most people found the survey through Tumblr.

[ID: A two panel figure. On the left, a plot showing the cumulative number of respondents to the survey over time. The x-axis shows months between May and December 2021, the y-axis shows cumulative number of participants. There are a series of spikes, with the largest jump in May, followed by spikes in August and November/December. The right panel shows a barchart with the number of people who found the survey through Tumblr (n=109), Twitter (n=21), Facebook (n=9), or had it shared by a friend (n=22). End ID]

Age

We asked about age, discretized into groups of 18-21, 22-25, 25-29, 30-34, 35-40, 41-45, and over 45. We were not able to include people under 18 in the survey because of certain quirks of the university ethics approval we received. This means our results are biased away from younger fans, but hopefully also gives a picture of the fandom. More than 60% of our respondents were under 25! So, Newsies seems like a young fandom. However, we also had 12 respondents over 40, maybe meaning that once you’re a fansie, you stick with it.

[ID: A bar chart of ages among survey participants. There are six groups: Ages 18-21 (70 respondents, 43.8%), 22-25 with 28 respondents, 17.5%), 26-30 (20 respondents, 12.5%), 31-35 (12 respondents, 7.5%), 36-40 (18 respondents, 11.2%) and 41 and older (12 respondents, 7.5%). End ID]

Gender

We also asked about gender in two questions: first, “What gender do you identify as?” and second, “Are you trans?.” We allowed some free text responses, as well as the four single choice options. Based on those responses, we added one new category, “Questioning,” based on responses like “IDK, gender is hard” and “I’ll let you know when I do.” We also had two answers which were combined into the genderqueer category. (Our ethics requireed us to collapse unique demographic categories into more common names or otherwise mask individual-level data).

Maybe unsurprisingly, most people who responded were women. More surprisingly, while none of the women who responded were trans, about 60% of the men were. In the pie charts below, the proportion of cis respondents are show in red, the proportion trans are shown in light blue, and black reflects those who chose not to respond; black in the bar charts does not reflect whether someone is cis or trans.

[ID: A bar chart showing gender distributions in the Newsies fandom with pie charts showing transgender identity for each gender. Genders were female (109 people, 68.1% with 100% cis participants); Male (n=12, 7.5%; with 2/3 trans respondents); Nonbinary (n=27, 16.9%; 2 non-respondents, 2/3 respondents were trans); Genderqueer (n=6, 3.8%, 2/3 trans), questioning (n=4, 2.5%), and 2 did not respond. End ID.]

Location

We had respondents all over the world. The map highlights countries respondents were from. The colors are meaningless and simply intended to highlight the locations where people live.

[ID: A world map showing where people who responded to the survey lived. Countries included the US, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, France, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Thailand, and Australia. End ID]

We were also able to look at US states. People who responded lived in the states that are colored on the map; the colors are once again independent of the number of people.

[ID: States where respondents live. You can find the full list of 35 states here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jwdebelius/newsies-survey/main/data/states.txt. END ID]

What’s next?

We have a lot more survey results! If you’d like to access the data, you can find it on our GitHub page. We’ve got the code that was used to analyze this data, plus some more analysis that we didn’t present here.

We’d like to do more of these posts if there’s interest! What other things would you be interested in knowing about: Favorite media, Favorite ships, Favorite characters, queer identities, fandom participation, or something else?

Thanks!

We want to thank everyone who participated in the survey!

We’d also like to thank @color--pals​ for permission to use their lovely color palette!

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If you're still interested in taking the survey and haven't yet, you have four more days! (We close December 31, 2021, 11:59 pm MST.) We'd love to hear from you.

Once the survey closes, we're excited to crunch the numbers and hopefully share some of the results here!

So, if you've taken the survey, thank you. If you haven't taken the survey and still want to, there's no time like the present!

Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We have had such an incredible response from all of you, Newsies fans, over the past few months, and it’s been a little while since we’ve boosted the survey again. We have about three weeks left in the survey! If you were intending to fill out the survey and haven’t had a chance, or if you know someone else who would want to share their thoughts, now is the time! Please reblog and share.

Here are the original details, in case you missed them:

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com. Thank you!

[newsiesfandomsurvey]

Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We have had such an incredible response from all of you, Newsies fans, over the past few months, and it’s been a little while since we’ve boosted the survey again. We have about three weeks left in the survey! If you were intending to fill out the survey and haven’t had a chance, or if you know someone else who would want to share their thoughts, now is the time! Please reblog and share.

Here are the original details, in case you missed them:

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com. Thank you!

[newsiesfandomsurvey]

Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We have had such an incredible response from all of you, Newsies fans, over the past few months, and it’s been a little while since we’ve boosted the survey again. We have about three weeks left in the survey! If you were intending to fill out the survey and haven’t had a chance, or if you know someone else who would want to share their thoughts, now is the time! Please reblog and share.

Here are the original details, in case you missed them:

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com. Thank you!

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In sweden we have a highway thats extremely prone to strabge accidents and crashes that doesnt make sense, as well as wirness accounts of swedish gnomes. Its said that the road was built on gnome land, abd they are now angry and take vengence on drivers

Yeah man don't make roads on elf houses we all know you shouldn't do that!!

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Do you have favorite pigeon breeds and/or species?

Breeds, I like a lot of them. I really like old German owls for looks. Frillbacks look cute, too.

Species? Hands down love how nicobar pigeons look

But pink necked greens are a close second:

And I gotta have some love for bronzewings

And for absolute units, you cannot beat Victoria crowned pigeons:

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Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We have had such an incredible response from all of you, Newsies fans, over the past few months, and it’s been a little while since we’ve boosted the survey again. If you were intending to fill out the survey and haven’t had a chance, or if you know someone else who would want to share their thoughts, now is the time!

Here are the original details, in case you missed them:

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com. Thank you!

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Hello Newsies! What’s new, you ask? We have 102 RESPONSES to our survey! 

That is absolutely tremendous - so many more than we expected to get, and we are delighted to have input from so many of you! However, we would like to keep going if we can, so if you have been meaning to fill out the survey and haven’t, or you know someone who would love to respond, now is the time!

Here are the original details, in case you missed them:

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com. Thank you!

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We have 96 RESPONSES, everyone! That’s amazing! We would still love to get to 100 participants, so if you haven’t taken the survey yet or know other folks who haven’t, please spread the word!

Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com Thank you!

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Oh, my goodness, everyone. We are so thrilled by the response to this so far! 45 responses in less than 24 hours! That’s amazing. Keep sharing and reblogging - we want to find as many fansies as possible. Thank you all!

Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com Thank you!

[newsiesfandomsurvey]

Hello Newsies! What’s new?

We are conducting a survey on the Newsies fandom, celebrating 30 years of the Newsies film and 10 years (!) of the stage production. We are looking for survey participants who are 18 and older and who are willing to answer questions about when they joined the fandom, who they ship, their favorite tropes, and how they have engaged in fandom over the years.

The survey is about 33 questions, and can take you anywhere between 30 and 60 minutes, depending on how much you want to elaborate. The only information we ask for is your age. The survey will not collect any other identifying information like your name, fandom pseudonym, IP address, social media handle, or email. All the other information is optional.

We’re looking for responses from 92sies, fans of the Broadway show, and both. All Newsies fans who are over 18 are welcome and encouraged to participate. If you have questions, you can e-mail newsiesfandomsurvey@gmail.com Thank you!