If interested I can give your email to an associate that claims to venture into the dark web (I'm being careful about my wording as I have not verified their activity myself and am skeptical of anyone making such claims). Recalling from similar research involving drug dealers, the researcher started with one key informant that made introductions to other informants after vetting the researcher. You may have to do the same. A couple cautionary notes, at one point when the informant felt jilted because the researcher couldn't get anymore useful information out of them and moved the research away from him as a focus, he robbed the researcher at gun point. As suggested by Katherine Lo, you may face reprisals for transgressions you aren't even aware of even with the best of intentions or simple maliciousness. Second, the researcher had to take great care to protect his data from law enforcement, only being able to protect it because it was under the domain of a federal grant. Joshua B. Treadway On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Alex Lambert <alex.lambert@monash.edu> wrote:
Dear AOIR colleagues
I am interested in researching the marginalised or elicit intimacies that form on the Dark Web. I want to begin with some small scale pilot research to orient the focus of the study, using a small group of interview participants. However, as a new-initiate of the Dark Web I am at a total loss as to how to recruit people. I was considering performing online interviews via known affiliate forums such as 8-Chan. However I am concerned that this will just solicit trolling.
Does anyone have any experience in this area? Your help would be much appreciated.
All the best Alex
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