[Air-L] Researchers as new eyes on public data

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

Quoting Marcela Musgrove <mmusgrove at gmail.com>:

> I personally don't think they are, but could see it as potentially
> being exploitative since the researcher is usually getting paid or
> amassing their own reputation points and would probably not be
> rewarding the online subject.

Does the transaction have to be one-to-one or might referred reward 
offset the concern?  I ask because, folks in publicly available sites 
often gain and lose reputation points on the local system, of course 
the reputation systems - academic and say chatroom or blog - are not 
the exact same systems.  I don't doubt that on some of the adolescent 
sites reputation points might be granted for the participant having 
been cited or quoted in a published paper.  I believe there are 
positives as well as negative aspects of being a participant in a 
study...we just tend to gravitate toward the negatives more 
easily...it's a human-being thing.

Lois Ann Scheidt

Doctoral Student - School of Library and Information Science, Indiana
University, Bloomington IN USA

Adjunct Instructor - School of Informatics, IUPUI, Indianapolis IN USA and
IUPUC, Columbus IN USA

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