definition October 21, 2005
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , trackbackDistributed Action Research
Research into or using online communities and digital tools. Although many people have started to conduct research in this manner recently, it doesn’t seem to be described as a separate discipline yet, but I feel it needs its own category because internet communities have their own unique customs and associated ethics due to the technology enabling new means and modes of communication so I invented the term Distributed Action Research to cover it. Examples of issues unique to DAR are
* a blurring of precise copyright conventions where people’s writing is freely quoted in replies.
* the relationship between online identity and ‘real’ identity
* the weight of consideration given to those who express an opinion compared to those who ‘lurk’.
* the need for the researcher to join or already be a part of the community and not just observe it from without.(differing from some ethnological approaches)
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