I’m struggling with the ethics of Internet research at the moment, which is more complicated than you might think. Depending on how you conceptualise the Internet, you need to apply different forms of ethical thinking. If you view the Internet as a virtual space populated by human actors, then you need a human subject approach […]
* Which are the main subject positions to be found within a learning community which comes together in an aynchronous online environment? * How are these subject positions introduced or created? * Which of these subject positions work to support learning, and which discourage learning? * How can the asynchronous environment be designed in order […]
Reading: Identity and deception in the virtual community Judith S Donath in ‘Communities in Cyberspace’, eds Marc A Smith and Peter Kollock pp 29-59 I’m interested in the part on how environment influences what you know and what is knowable of others identities. It affects how you create that identity, and what sort of first […]
We’ve got a new group blog up and running. It should be able to import all our old group blog from Blogger, but that’s proving complicated and it keeps timing out with its connection. Of course, the minute I can’t post to it I think of all sorts of things to post in it. I’ve […]
I’ve decided to make a point of emailing researchers when I have read their article and found it useful. This was recommended in U500 last year, and seems like a good idea. Apart from the fact that they might get back to me with some useful ideas or references, it also helps me to fix […]