Karen McCullagh at Manchester University is conducting an online survey to explore the privacy attitudes and expectations of bloggers as part of her PhD research. She summarises the goals of her research thus:

Bloggers[‘] privacy expectations and attitudes

The number of blog writers and readers has grown enormously in the last few years. Moreover, blogs are permeating most niches of social life, addressing a range of topics from scholarly and political issues to family and children’s daily lives. By their very nature, blogs raise a number of privacy issues. On the one hand, they are easy to produce and disseminate. At the same time, they are persistent and cumulative, resulting in large amounts of sometimes personal information being broadcast across the Internet

Blogging has the power to affect not only the lives of bloggers themselves but also of the people, companies, and products that are “blogged.” For example, accounts of bloggers hurting friends’ feelings or losing their jobs because of materials published on their sites are becoming more frequent. Therefore, it is important to understand how accountability and privacy expectations function in this emergent media.

Survey is at http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/privacysurvey/

BTW for those of you who did the last one of these, the resultant thesis can be found at http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~cameron/phd-thesis.pdf (158 pages!).