Hi everyone I have been reading this list for about a month now so I thought it was about time I delurked. I'm doing a PhD at the University of Sydney and my subject is the PhD itself. I am interested in how it has been and is being conceptualised, and how that matches the lived experience. To this end I have a small but growing group of PhD candidates (one of whom is myself!) who are keeping blogs about their experience. As far as I can ascertain this could be the first time anyone's been able to look at the process of becoming a doctor using an ongoing longitudinal study - certainly the first time anyone's used an online method. So I'm not, strictly speaking, researching the internet or any facet of it - rather I'm using an online tool to do an ethnographic study. Looking forward to some more interesting posts. I'm finding this list a great resource for new trains of thought. Mary-Helen