Tag Archives: Research
Ethics of weblog research
Lilia asks about the ethics of protecting your “subjects” when studying blogs. I’ve thought a bit about this. In my opinion, when we study blogs, we are largely studying a publication, and not a person, at least for aggregated data or quotations that are not personally identifiable. But it does raise an interesting ethical dilemma. […]
Free Cooperation 1
Spent the day at the Free Cooperation conference here at Buffalo. Definitely well worth the time. I’ll comment a bit on two sessions: one in the morning on issues of open content, the other I moderated in the afternoon, on social networking architectures. Open Content Initiatives The presentations were relatively informal. The focus generally revolved […]
More on inverse surveillance
I promised some quick notes on the IWIS workshop earlier this week. I do have some note-like notes, especially from the early part of the workshop, but I will instead focus on some take-away reflections about interesting issues. I was pleasantly surprised at the focus on the social over (or, at least, with) the hardware. […]
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