On 9/3/07, Lois Ann Scheidt <lscheidt@indiana.edu> wrote:
I don't doubt that on some of the adolescent sites reputation points might be granted for the participant having been cited or quoted in a published paper.
Have you seen this happen? Actually do people even show their published papers to their participants when it's done? If you get your picture and quote in the newspaper, it's something to cut out and give to your mom, but with an obscure academic article where you're usually anonymized, it seems like it'd be a "meh" unless the researcher is particularly well-known. In journalism, if someone is misrepresented, they have the option of suing for libel or writing a furious letter to the editor, so I guess hypothetically if someone was upset with the way a researcher represented them, they could always sue or write a letter to the publication or university for them to investigate--has this happened? Marcela