[Patricia Aufderheide] A new survey explores the problems researchers in various sectors experiences in attempting to use text and datamining (TDM), and you can help. TDM is a basic feature of daily digital life, for good and ill. It is what enables search; it drives targeted advertising; it feeds predictive policing; and increasingly for scholars it is a crucial tool to track networked behaviors and identify patterns relevant to their subject disciplines. Those disciplines are as wide-ranging as medicine, political science, engineering, legal studies and communication; for Internet studies, it is routine. But unless you work for a company that generates the data you want to study... it can be tricky to get your hands on the material. Copyright and contracts get in the way; so do terms of service. And library/archive policies. And, of course, lack of knowledge and misinformation. Our survey, offered in English, Portuguese and Spanish, will give us cross-cultural information on what problems researchers encounter, and what they do when they have those problems.