Hi all, A PhD student is doing research into Enjo Kousai or teenage prostitution in Japan. Her primary source of personal information is chat room archives. Our review board has said that we can do a study of the chat room but "The research can only be about chat room discourse and not about how Japanese teenagers behave" Can tentative 'conclusions' be drawn about attitudes and behaviours from online conversation? Does anyone know of published work along these lines? Cheers, Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby@newcastle.edu.au +61 2 49216604
have you seen the work on critical discourse analysis? there r a few websites on it. i think the distinction being made is arbitrary at best, what is the difference in a chatroom between an action and a stated action? none that i can see. i can see the inference between what the people say they will do and what they do is not permitted, but you could not make that inference from chats alone. jeremy hunsinger jhuns@vt.edu on the ibook www.cddc.vt.edu www.cddc.vt.edu/jeremy www.dromocracy.com () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments
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