the methods do determine whether or not you need to seek irb approval, that was my point on the prior discussion. if you are studying objects or documents, you don't need irb approval. you need irb approval when you have a human subject, which is defined as a living person that you intervene with or collect private information from. where intervention is defined as changing the environment, manipulating the person, and interaction and interaction is defined as interpersonal contact or interpersonal communication. On Mar 8, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Radhika Gajjala wrote:
exactly. could we study the puppet - inert? what would be the point? textual analysis and semiotic analysis does have a point - but we dont ever really get IRB permission for that... so its the methodology that leads to the need or not?
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