The research is not about a single persona so no personal information will be revealed. It is more about the mapping of interests on the Web and how a single opinion can be enhanced by having multiple representations. In other words - I want to study how a single person can change the conception of a topic by having several sites.

I hope it makes sense... 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/

"Andrea Forte" andrea.forte@gmail.com@Wikimedia.org on 20/09/2006 18:01:27

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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

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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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