A message from david_eddy_spicer@harvard.edu on 5/3/02 10:52 AM contained...
I'm new to the list, and I'm sure this question has come up before. I'm interested in articles that elaborate ethical guidelines for doing naturalistic studies of online discussions.
I'm also new to the list and I would like to see a brief definition for a naturalistic study of online (or otherwise) discussion. Or perhaps a definition for an online discussion. Also, I'm an outsider to academic professional discourse but I am familiar with media studies - ala Michael Moore - that being a sense of popular culture via attendance to popular media channels. One of the recent rewards of my attendance were last years Citibank primetime public relations ads that portrayed a background of buildings being demolished and the demolition foreman explaining to the reporter that '...we had some extra explosives and the people love it...'. At the time I wondered how a financial giant like Citibank could relate the ad to developing it's business. Anyway, Martin uncredentialled