Ethics
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Wednesday, July 8th, 2009I’ve been reading up on the results of a study by David Myers, a university professor in mass communication, over an ethnomethodological study he did of City of Heroes/Villains, in which he played a character named Twixt according to the rules of the game instead of the social norms established in CoH/V by the player […]
Anonymity and studies of social networks
Monday, March 30th, 2009I keep mumbling on about how it’s almost impossible to truly have an anonymous reviewing process in the age of Google. If someone has previously published on the subject that the paper I’m supposed to be reviewing covers, I’m probably going to come across it if I do a literature research to see if there […]
I am very disturbed now
Friday, December 19th, 2008The BBC reports on a research study in which a group of researchers in the US replicated the infamous Milgram experiment, in which people were tested to see how far they were willing to torture people under an authority figure’s order (Milgram was interested in understanding how ordinary Germans could have willingly participated in torture […]
No Bosnian pyramids
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006So, apparently, there are no pyramids in Bosnia and the person behind this pseudo-news has some rather, uh, original thoughts on the Maya’s place in the world. (I had skimmed an article on this “news” and thought to myself, wow, pyramids in Europe? Whoda thunk?)
Looks like the Noël-Dumoulin (pseudo)science newsworthiness formula has struck again.
So what […]
