Hello everyone, Sor far I was a quite passive member of this great list, but hope this will change now. I am a qualitative researcher utilising the Internet for empirical material collection. For my research I developed a research platform which is basicly a community platform offering blogs and fora to my participants. In my research I am exploring tourist's perceptions of climate change and how this influences their travel decisions and experiences. My participants to some degree already talked about this topic on their own travel blog or within a travel community which they are a member of. At this stage I just started some email interviews with first participants and will start the online discussions on my platform soon. As a qualitative online researcher I am fairly lonely in my department/shool(/university?) and would like to connect with other researchers who use a similar approch for their research. It would be great to exchange some experiences or receive some references if the research has been published. Kind regards, Ulrike -- Ulrike Kachel PhD Candidate Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management Griffith Business School Gold Coast campus Griffith University Qld 4222 Australia Location: Room 2.08, G27 building Phone: 07 5552 8084 Fax: 07 5552 8507 Mobile: 0416 095 196 Email: u.kachel@griffith.edu.au