[Air-L] IRB and blogs

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I wonder if the student had called them 'online publications' there  
would be a completely different reaction.
Because grandma posting about her foot calluses and Brooklyn Vegan,  
while both could be entitled 'blogs', are completely entirely different.
IRB hasn't been updated that the word 'blog' in an of itself does not  
mean human subject specific content.


On Oct 16, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Johnson, Thomas J wrote:

> A master's student I am working with was told by the Human Subjects  
> Committee that in doing a textual analysis of indie music blogs that  
> she could not list the name of the blog but had to use pseudonyms.   
> Has any heard of this before? They are public sites after all and  
> their content is easily searchable.  If you were coding newspapers  
> you wouldn't need to identify them as newspaper A or B.  I think it  
> is crazy, but wanted to hear what you think.
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