[Air-l] non-profit web sites

[pjo at unr.edu]

Hi everyone,
I am seeking advice in relation to a subject that I am currently  
researching. I am doing a study on non-profit web sites -what are the  
online discourses articulated by ethnic community-based groups in the  
US?
I have conducted interviews with webmasters. However, my colleagues  
are raising serious doubts about the representativeness of the  
information and opinions provided by the webmasters. Because of the  
nature of the technology they believe that the web sites and their  
contents are just products of webmasters and not of the entire  
association.
In other words, if you carry out research in non-profit groups, and  
you conduct interviews with for example the director of the group, how  
representative would be her opinions in relation to those of the rest  
of the group? Could I take for good the contents posted on the web  
sites as products of the entire association?
Any suggestion, advice, bibliographical reference would be much appreciate it.
Thanks



Pedro J. Oiarzabal
Center for Basque Studies/322
University of Nevada, Reno
NV 89557 -USA
1-775-784-4854
Fax: 1-775-784-1355
pjo at unr.edu
http://basque.unr.edu

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