Account for it, than avoid it
[on methods]
- What are you counting or quantifying? (e.g. counting hits does not measure or count the number of users).
- Where do you start and stop? (e.g. specifying boundary for categorization schemes).
- Data seduction in the produced maps given the power of visualization (results orientated towards the tracing of technological links).
- Questions regarding context, location, site.
[on ethics]
“… how new research methods using the Internet may or may not affect the ethical protections to which human subjects are entitled, and the validity of data collected using the Internet” (Walther, Online, par. 1).
