participants. Anyone can potentially have access to search results revealing the author and their identity. To mitigate this issue, many scholars choose to paraphrase textual data to avoid source identification. Thus, "ethical concerns must be reexamined in light of new technologies for both subjects and researchers alike". See also Anthropology of cyberspace Networks of practice Online research community Social networks Virtual community Virtual community of practice References Further reading Alzola Romero, Aarón "/WHOIS? Identity: Collectivity and the Self in IRC," Psychnology Journal, Vol. 1 No. 2, 87-130. Beaulieu, Anne, and Mette Terp Hoybye, "Studying mailing lists: Text, temporality, interaction, and materiality at the intersection of e-mail and the web," Ch. 11 in The Handbook of Emergent Technologies in Social Research. Brotsky, Sarah R. and David Giles. 2007. "Inside the 'Pro-Ana' Community: A Covert Participation Observation." Eating Disorders: pro The Journal of Treatment & Prevention 15(2): 93-109 (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10640260701190600) Chrichton, Susan and Shelly Kinash. "Virtual Ethnography: Interactive Interviewing Online as Method," Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Volume 29(2) Spring, 2003. danah boyd. (Forthcoming). "Making Sense of Teen Life: Strategies for Capturing Ethnographic Data in a Networked Era." In Hargittai, E. & Sandvig, C. (Eds.) Digital Research Confidential: The Secrets of Studying Behavior Online. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. Greive, Gregory. (1995) "Imagining a Virtual Religious Community: Neo-pagans on The Internet," Chicago Anthropology Exchange 7 (Winter): 98-132. Humphreys, L. 2007. Mobile social networks and social practice: A case study of dodgeball. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (13) 1. Marshall, J.P. "Ambiguity, Oscillation and Disorder: Online Ethnography and the Making of Culture," Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, Volume 2(3) Spring, 2010 Tomlinson, Mark. "The Academic Robotics Community in the UK: Web based data construction and analysis of a distributed community of practice" (Working Paper). Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics. Torres, L., Gonzalez, H., Ojeda, J., & Monguet, J. (2010). "PLEs from virtual ethnography of Web 2.0". In The PLE Conference 2010. Barcelona. http://pleconference.citilab.eu. Verhaeghe A., Prof. Dr. Schillewaert N., Van den Berge E., 2009, Getting answers without asking questions, ESOMAR ONLINE RESEARCH '09] External links Virtual Ethnography Ethnography Anthropology