Hello!  My name is Viktor Brenner and I am the author of the
Internet Usage Survey.  Below you can see me in my tiny home office.  
I wanted you to get a chance to see who I am in case you 
were wondering about it--see, I really AM not trying to sell 
you something !

		

What I am is a visiting assistant professor in the Departement of
Counseling and Educational Psychology at Marquette University. 
In November, 1996 I completed my Ph.D in Clinical Psychology at the 
State University of New York at Buffalo.  I am currently
in a one-year position, however, so if you know of any permanent positions 
opening up that are commutable from Milwaukee...


My purpose is creating this HTML is not just to prove that I am not 
trying to sell you something, but also to try to deflect some of the
attention that this survey has created.  Everybody wants to know
more about Internet use and abuse, but I seem to be the only one
trying to collect data at this time.  So, watch this space for announcements 
about when results become available.  

Update:  March 15, 1996.  A draft of the first results from the survey
are now available at the Psychology Preprint Bulletin Board. 
Please follow this link, read the Introduction file, then look under 
Title, Psychological and Physiological Disorders, (b) Behavioral.
 
Aside from that, I guess I can tell you a little about myself.  I got 
interested in Internet use/abuse/addiction because I have been
an Internet user since late 1991 (remember when Gopher and Archie
were the thing?).  From some of my clinical work and from the media
I became intrigued with the possibility that Internet usage can be
problematic (I have been accused of being on too much more than
once) and when I could locate no data to either support or dispute 
this claim, I began the survey.  I hope to gather data about what 
constitutes normal usage, and from that be able to define "excessive."

But enough about business.  Let me tell you a bit about me.

One thing I use the net for that is relatively unusual is to run 
my fantasy baseball team, the Niagara Falls Barrelridersof the
 Jackie Robinson Rotisserie Baseball League.  Although we 
have yet to finish in the upper division in a non-strike year, I have 
confidence that this years edition.  Course that's easy for me to say; 
my favorite team is the Milwaukee Brewers.  To find out more about 
fantasy baseball, check out the USA Today Fantasy Baseball page.


Among my other favorite sports teams are the San Francisco 49ers 
and the Buffalo Sabres.  Aside from sports I am not much of a 
TV watcher (I prefer to do things than watch other people doing 
things I could be doing), with the significant exception being 
The X-Files.  I am a particular fan of Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully. 
 I also have been known to watch the Red Green Show.


I also consider myself something of an expert on 
the-music-genre-that-used-to-be called alternative, since I have been
listening to it since 1981.  One thing I miss about Buffalo is getting to 
listen to the world's greatest radio station, CFNY in Toronto. 
 Another great place to learn about music is the site run by the world's 
greatest indie label, Nettwerk Records in Vancouver.  Check out 
the Sarah McLachlan pages.  I particularly like older industrial  music and 
"Manchester Music" like the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays but now 
that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon, these days I often look for 
anything that sounds different.  That's why I hate retro-rehashers like 
Hootie and the Blowfish or the Dave Mathews Band and why I love Garbage.


Anyway, I hope that you have enjoyed getting to meet the author of 
the survey.  If you have already taken it, thank you.  If you were deciding 
whether or not to take it, I hope I have eased any concerns you may 
have had.  In either case, feel free to drop me an email...

Send mail to author at   brennerv@vms.csd.mu.edu. 

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