Dear Linda,
Your project sounds very interesting and, hoepfully, it may
indeed "contribute to the advancement and creation of knowledge
regarding Understanding Micro-Community - Virtual- Interaction
Patterns."
However you also wrote:
(...)
> I am writing to inform the List members of my intention to study
samplings of List’s conversations in archive and real-time form. I
will begin the real time observation portion of the study October 20,
2005 and the observation will continue for a maximum of 6 months.>
(...)
I am just wondering if announcing the exact period for your "real
time" observation wont distort part of the expected results.
Don't you think that some of the participants may change their usual
posting behavior and patterns, knowing that they are being observed
during that precise period?
François-X.
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