Hi Vanessa. I can only echo Mary-Helen's response...Internet research is a very complex research area. My research team focuses on the new literacies of reading on the Internet from an education standpoint. You can see our work at: http://newliteracies.uconn.edu You can also visit the Oxford Internet Institute webpage for additional ideas about Internet research: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/ There are many, many more groups that focus on Internet research as well. Best, Laurie Laurie A. Henry New Literacies Research Team University of Connecticut (860) 486-4634 Lab laurie.henry@uconn.edu http://www.newliteracies.uconn.edu "If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." --Michelangelo On 11/2/06 11:54 PM, "Mary-Helen Ward" <mhward@usyd.edu.au> wrote:
Do you mean "How do I begin to research what the internet is?" or "How do I research how people use the internet?" Or "How do I do research using the internet as a tool?" Or maybe something else entirely.
As you may have gathered already, this is not a small or simple field. There are many aspects to the term 'internet researcher'. You might want to think about what it is about the internet you want to find out - e.g. what your research areas/questions/discipline/interests are.
M-H
Vanessa Gonzalez wrote:
how can i get started in becoming an internet researcher? I am very new to all of this.
Vanessa
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