[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 50, Issue 18

[Pawan Singh]

Thank you Koen, Steve and Nishant,
First off, I just joined UC San Diego, so it'll take them a bit of time to
put up my page on the website. I know it's important to have a page
describing one's research and academic work but due to bureaucratic
procedures this might only happen during the mid of the quarter.

Koen, I did contact the people with those profiles and also requested
interview appointments but their perception of their participation in a
research concerning their sexuality is a major concern. So I've run into a
bit of an impasse there. But I'll try again with a different set of
respondents and see what happens. Thanks, I am reading Nakumura's work and
will hopefully use it in my paper.

Steve, I'll have to figure this out with my department. So definitely a
suggestion to keep in mind. Thank you.

Nishant, thank you for an elaborate message and I think your suggestions are
valuable. I'll need to restructure my paper in order to look beyond the
profile content. Maybe the offline context in which sexuality is experienced
and then how it is actively constructed online in these spaces. Profiles
provide a lot of rich raw data for producing analytically thick descriptions
but I guess what you suggest is certainly a way around the problem.

Just one clarification. Do you think my personal interaction with the
respondents is less subject to ethics than using profile data?  Do I still
need to obtain permission to use it for research.

Thanks for all your suggestions guys.

Pawan