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<DIV>I've only just joined the list and wasn't sure if 'intros' were
appropriate, but the discussion has taken my interest. Like Denise, part
of my own PhD (I'm in the final year... er.. getting to 'writing up') is an
online ethnography.</DIV>
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<DIV>In both courses that I teach, I also make extensive use of online journals,
and encourage my students to do the same. Other members of staff here have
gone with the 'dubious' quality argument for online material, a fact which, in
my opinion, doesn't help the students ability to associate the topics with their
own lives, and contributes to the devaluing of that format. </DIV>
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<DIV>There is definitely an argument for more established academics to allow
their conference papers to be published, if only to open the way for a better
judgement of online academic material. Researches of online environments
should surely be the first to support this.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
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<DIV>Tom Hope<BR>Dept of Sociology<BR>University of York<BR>York YO10
5DD<BR>UK<BR>Tel. +44-01904-432632<BR>Fax. +44-01904-433043<BR><A
href="http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/graduates/gradhope.htm">http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/soci/graduates/gradhope.htm</A></DIV>
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