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Introducing TLF Guest Bloggers!

So for the past few months here at The Learned Fangirl, we’d been mulling over inviting guest bloggers to join us and chime in on social media/political economy/cultural studies/fangirl issues that were important to them. We decided to ask around and rounded up a small group of friends and like-minded compatriots to share their thoughts. [...]

The Ethics of Studying Social Media and Online Communities

After the horrible nightmare that was Loyola professor Dr. David Myers’ study in the City of Heroes online community, I started thinking about the ethical challenges that face researchers wanting to do studies using virtual environments – massively-multiplayer games, forums, social networking spaces like Facebook or Twitter, even blogs. They are very tempting environments for [...]