Dear Ates,
The authoritative guide to citing on-line sources is:
Walker, Janice R., and Todd Taylor. 2006. Columbia Guide to Online
Style. Second Edition. New York: Columbia University Press.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos2006/basic.html#1
They provide information for all the major styles -- APA, MLA,
Co-author Janice Walker also provides a web site with useful information at
http://www.cas.usf.edu/english/walker/mla.html
To learn more and to locate experts on the issues where you may have
specific questions, I'd suggest you visit the web site of the
Association of Internet researchers
http://aoir.org/
The best place to ask this kind of question if the Air-L email list.
Among the 1,000 subscribers to that list, you'll find most of the
leading scholars in Internet research. Given your thesis topic, I'd
suggest you join their list and think about joining AOIR.
This is a fairly tricky area -- the best people to ask are
researchers who work with this material on a regular basis, and who
stay at the advancing front of practice in this research field.
Best regards,
Ken
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R. Ates Gursimsek wrote:
This is my first post to the list, so I believe I have to introduce
myself first. I (Ates Gursimsek) am a graduate student in Istanbul
Technical University, Dept. of ID who's currently concluding a thesis
on relevance between new media applications, virtual environments and
their emphasis on design profession (what a broad definition, of
course).
For my research, I am observing the discussions on a specific topic
from on-line user forums (not academic content, but more
everyday-matters on products). I've checked some websites (APA, MLA,
i.e.) on how to cite these resources but I am still confused.
First of all, users with whom I'm dealing with have screen names such
as 'RubberDuckie' or 'RiderFrommHell' etc. Should I use only their
screen names in parenthetical quotations inside the text, should I
give detailed information after the quotation or should I provide
footnotes with URLs for every user I quote? Also, should I refer to
every thread in the forum in the bibliography part? As you can see, I
am confused since I've observed that using non-academic on-line
platforms as resource seems to be a rarely touched field. (or it is
such as far as I can observe).
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Prof. Ken Friedman
Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language
Norwegian School of Management
Oslo
Center for Design Research
Denmark's Design School
Copenhagen
+47 46.41.06.76 Tlf NSM
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