Hi Einat - what kinds of measures are you taking to protect the privacy of the people involved in your study? I have a few different online selves on different sites that I try to keep as separate as possible but before I would consent to be in such a study, I'd want to know that my data was being protected rigorously. This is research of a highly personal nature.
Also, can you explain the rationale that a person can only have one online identity per host? At the risk of sounding confrontational, (I don't mean to be! :-) ) I think you need only look at the practice of maintaining multiple accounts on the same site to see that people don't think of hosts as "selves" - i would be surprised if you found any alignment at all between the technical infrastructure of the web and the presentation of self. My sense is that setting this constraint up front will conceal potentially interesting practices.
Andrea
On 9/20/06, Einat Amitay einat@il.ibm.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for people with multiple Web presence. By multiple I mean that you have more than a single homepage/blog/wiki user page/etc.
So - if you are willing to share your list of urls - by sending them to me (just the urls - I don't need a lot more).
A url should be hosted on a different host for each "presence".
I want to study and compare such multiple entities.
Thanks, Einat
Einat Amitay, PhD. Information Retrieval Group IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel
Alter ego: http://WebIR.org http://einat.webir.org http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webir/
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