I admit to not being familiar with websites like facebook or myspace (the one or two times I looked at these sites seemed to me to require too much time and effort to really understand what they were about) but it appears that these types of social networking systems will be a rich source of archival data for analysis, as shown in this morning's NY Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all Of course this raises a variety of questions (to whom does research based on such a website generalize to, what are the ethical issues involved [apparently some of the research is conducted without the participants knowledge]). How many researchers will study such online phenomena instead of traditional human/animal-based research? -Mike Palij New York University [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
