Field Research

[Kathryn Beaver]

Thank you all so much for your openness & helpful responses!  Just to
clarify, the IRB review is not required to just do the research. However,
it is being filed should I choose to present or publish the results. Also,
it is not simply archival research, but in depth interviews & participant
observation (as much as time will allow).  It was thought better to err on
the side of caution for this project. The information on the public aspect
of this site as pertains to consent was especially helpful. As to "virtual
communication," for the purpose of this discourse and research it is any
communication that takes place through any electronic medium, as opposed to
face-to-face. Thank you all again for your help & participation, I'm so
glad this is the group I chose to study!
On Jan 27, 2012 10:10 AM, "Matthew Bernius" <mbernius at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Claire Bowern <clairebowern at gmail.com>
>  wrote:
>
> > Just like you don't have to ask an IRB's permission to go to the library
> > to read archival materials (doesn't fall under their purview)
>
>
> This is an interesting point. If Kathryn was to have simply gone to the
> list's web archive:
> http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A0=LINGANTH all
> of this would be a moot point. The archive (or at least its top page) is
> "published" on the web and comes up in search. In this respect there is no
> difference than doing archival research (heck the static link --
> "listserv.*
> linguist*list.org/archives/linganth.html" -- has archive in its title).
>
> However, since Kathryn is a member of the group, and receiving the emails,
> there is a sense of a different relationship with the content itself. Is it
> the personal deliver or the idea of "real time" versus "archival
> collection?"
>
> (btw Kathryn, you might want dedicate some time to analyzing the meta
> conversation that your simple request generated ;) ).
>
> ----------------------------
> Matthew Bernius
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> http://anthropology.cornell.edu
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> Technology | http://opl.cias.rit.edu
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