[Air-L] Death/Migration of an online community

[Derek Hansen]

I have my students read Derek Powazek's chapter on Killing a
Community, which is a nice read from a practitioner's perspective.

Derek

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Warren Allen <wsa25 at drexel.edu> wrote:
> Ruth, if you haven't already discovered them, you might find some
> value ethics-wise in the following:
>
> Bruckman, A. (2006). Teaching Students to Study Online Communities
> Ethically. Journal of Information Ethics, 15(2), 82-98.
>
> Hudson, J. M., & Bruckman, A. (2004). " Go Away": Participant
> Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research. The
> Information Society, 20(2), 127-139.
>
> ~Warren
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 3:47 AM, ruth <ruth at ruthdeller.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Hi everyone
>>
>> Yesterday, the owner of a large online fan community that I'm on the
>> fringes of announced that he was closing the site, and this has caused a
>> lot of uproar as the membership (41,000, with 16,000 active posters) are
>> dealing with the news and looking at what to do next).  It'll make a
>> fascinating study to look at how the community deals with the transition,
>> but I was wondering about the permissions involved for such research: the
>> forum rules state posters' words are their own and can't be reproduced
>> without their permission, which is fine, but in such cases where there's a
>> site owner, is it best practice, or even essential, to go to them first
>> and then ask the posters?
>>
>> (The same is likely to apply to the forums they migrate to)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ruth
>>
>>
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