[Imc-uk-network] ESRC funded research project on Indymedia UK]

[Tony]

Hello all

I am guessing - without going back through the archives - that the 
research that Ilyan is referring to was when someone at the 
University of Gwent [?] asked to do some research on who uses 
indymedia etc. At the time the general outcome of a long discussion 
was that they can obviously use all he transparent info available on 
the lists and archives if they need to but no-one had the time or 
inclination to do any work from our side as it was not deemed to be 
of much use to us as a network. They also asked for the use of a 
feature on UK indymedia to advertise their project and we declined 
this as a misuse of the site.

Actualy having a quick look through the archives - if you look around 
22nd June 2004 on [Imc-uk-process] you will find the start of a 
discussion on this proposal. At least with this one they approached 
us formally and joined in a good discussion - which led in many ways 
to the setting up of some wiki pages to help those doing research 
without draining our time and energy.

cheers tony

At 00:22 +0000 21/1/07, Ilyan wrote:
>Are the people making a fuss about not being informed newcomers, or
>people with bad memories.   I am certain there was discussion  about a 
>University  research project in IMC lists, perhaps it was two years
>ago.  Otherwise I would not know about it.  The important thing is that
>results are available to everyone, not stashed away copyright in a
>University Library no one can get to, and that personal details are
>anonymised  and records of such destroyed.   They probably never
>collected them.
>
>Ilyan