Ditto to what jeremy said. Besides, if in doubt, you can always google (or yahoo or bing or ...). Best wishes, Yuwei -- Yuwei Lin | yuwei at ylin dot org http://www.ylin.org jeremy hunsinger wrote:
I tend to think this is against the spirit of aoir as i've understood it to some extent. the idea should be more that... anyone with any credential or none can provide you answers that are as strong as any others. in short, my position is "I'd prefer the collegiality of shared knowledge over credentials any day". some of our best contributors in recent years have been undergraduate and graduate students and i'd like this to continue unhindered by the burden of being credentialed.
so i'd say, no, people should not bother with credentials unless they personally feel that they need to 'represent' them for whatever reason. so we can have 'both', but there should be no feeling of compulsion or necessary association between credentials and expertise that people should assume.
but that's just me....
jeremy
On Aug 18, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Dr. Rasha Abdulla wrote:
Hi all,
I've been wanting to ask this of the list members for a while, but was afraid it might be offensive to some. But I'm increasingly convinced that it's important.
Could list members please list their full names and titles as a signature to their messages? It may not make much difference if you're asking a question, but it certainly does when you're providing an answer or even making a comment. I think it adds to the credibility of the message, and gives other list members a chance to assess such credibility.
Thank you. Take care. Rasha -- Rasha A. Abdulla, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Journalism and Mass Communication The American University in Cairo www.rashaabdulla.com _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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