Wasn't sure if this reached anyone so thought I would resend. I am currently studying social networks in a way that completely preserves privacy but still allows for the collection of relevant and actionable data. If you use Twitter, I would greatly appreciate if you could take the time to complete this 10 minute survey. The link to the survey can be found at www.twittersurvey.co.uk<http://www.twittersurvey.co.uk/> I can't describe my hypothesis because I don't want to bias results, but I think the findings will be very interesting- I'm happy to share these once the data is analyzed. Thank you for your support- Lauren On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Peter Timusk wrote: Interesting article as my workplace spends a great deal of effort making data confidential for official statistics. Some of the math behind these confidentiality calculations is beyond me but it really is a lot of effort. This is an area of statistics to know about in research. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org<http://www.webpagex.org> -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Charles Ess Sent: July-11-11 5:37 AM To: Air list Subject: [Air-L] nice Chronicle story (U.S.) featuring AoIR-ists <http://chronicle.com/article/Harvards-Privacy-Meltdown/128166/?sid=at&utm_s ource=at&utm_medium=en> - including Elizabeth Buchanan (chair of our ethical guidelines committee), Alex Halavais (current V-P, soon to be Prez), and Michael Zimmer. Congrats, dear colleagues! - charles ess Institut for Informations- og Medievidenskab Helsingforsgade 14 8200 Århus N. Denmark mail: <imvce@hum.au.dk<mailto:imvce@hum.au.dk>> tel: (+45) 8942 9250 Professor, Philosophy and Religion Drury University, Springfield, Missouri 65802 USA Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org<mailto:Air-L@listserv.aoir.org> mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ -- Lauren Wagner University of Oxford | Oxford Internet Institute MSc in Social Science of the Internet 2011 (UK) +44 77 6983 0589