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what do you know across the net?, September 5, 2005
This review is from: Virtual Methods (Paperback)
How easy is it to use the Internet for conducting research with subjects, as compared to traditional real world in-person interviews? This is just one of the issues confronted by Hine. The Internet's pervasive sweep offers a glittering opportunity for researchers to scale up their efforts, without being constrained by geographical extent. So various research fields are struggling to adapt.
Hine points out many pitfalls that could tangle you up. Like the obvious one of how valid is an interview conducted on the net with one done in person? In both cases, you usually have to take some of the subject's background on trust. But with the Internet, you might not even know for sure the subject's gender or ethnicity. The virtual nature of the Internet gives rise to these and many more aspects.
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