Internet emerges as social research tool - The Diigo Meta page

• 15 Feb 09
  

  Olivier Le Deuff

  science2.0

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  Christophe Deschamps

  Les scientifiques découvrent qu'internet n'est pas qu'un objet d'étude ;-) et qu'il permet aussi de mener des recherches.

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  • "Although social scientists, engineers and physical scientists have studied the World Wide Web as an entity in and of itself for some time, there is now a growing group of social scientists who are learning how to use the World Wide Web as a tool for research rather than as a subject of research,"
  • "Henry is developing very innovative ways to identify networks that are actual face-to-face relationships by tracking evidence streams on the Web," Dietz said. "In other words, it's not simply about who's connected to whom on Facebook or Twitter, but who's doing research with whom in the real world. It's using the virtual world to identify things that are going on in the real world rather than using the virtual world simply to look at the virtual world."

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