Well I offer these as detective work clues: How did they find out psychologists mostly study undergraduate students because these are the easiest subjects for university researchers to find? And more important why did health research focus on men and not women in say heart attack research. I mean these of the same order of just common knowledge. So how did these facts of bias get established? May be someone should research the question with a meta study of studies of the Internet. In Canada bringing the Internet to rural areas is the reason for some new funding for the Canadian Internet Use Survey where one of my bosses Larry Mckeown puts of papers on rural internet stuff. On 21-Jul-09, at 6:19 PM, Barry Wellman wrote:
No one was able to point to an article that did a meta-analysis showing (or not) a predominantly urban focus in internet research.
So Jess Collins & I changed our sentence a bit.
We did get many pointers to folks doing urban-rural comparisons or rural focused internet research. Which was not what we were asking about, but as they were copied to these lists, may well have been useful to some -- as well as to us.
I do wish people would relabel their subject lines if they are responding to a somewhat different query.
Anyway, our paper is done, and goes up on my website/publications - Connected Lives -- by Monday. Look for "Small Town in Internet Society: Chapleau Is No Longer an Island"
Cheers, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________
S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA@list.citasa.org http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org
Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. Kiitos Paljon, Merci, and thank you.