Dear Ates,
Your latest reply seems to clarify what seemed reasonably clear in
your first note. Take a look at the Columbia Guide.
But Lubomir raises a valuable point. One good source is a book titled
Doing Internet Research
Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net from Sage
Publications. Steve Jones is the editor. If you want to good examples
of Internet research in which scholars from different fields work
with some of the challenges noted here, you might also look at some
of the books Jones has produced over the past decade, including three
early and now-classic collections of Internet research, Cybersociety,
Virtual Culture, and Cybersociety 2.0.
The various posts from Chris, Dick, and Lubomir made good sense, as
did your reply. I would still suggest that if you really wants to
understand these issues, you should go to where the real
methodological expertise is to be found. AoIR exists for that
purpose, and they've built a content-rich web site to share their
knowledge with the larger research community as well as with AoIR
members.
Yours,
Ken
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