One of my papers finally got published in a journal. I find this paper special because it is my first journal article based on use of message board data (I used both Indiamike and Thorn Tree). The abstract of the journal is available online. The argument goes something like this-
With consumers sharing both positive and negative aspects of a destination online, destination marketing organizations will increasingly find their “picture postcard” images being contested.
Congrats ! Congrats ! Congrats !Party ?:)
hearty congrats mridula 🙂
Great.. Congrats…
Congratulations! It’s a thrill to be published :)As Community Manager of Thorn Tree, I must say however, I’m disappointed you didn’t contact my team to let us know you were conducting research. We frequently cooperate with academics (I’m one myself!) but we do stipulate that research of any kind in our online community be conducted transparently and engage community custodians.This is a precondition of responsible, ethical reseach (we are accountable for the travellers whose representations you are drawing upon). You also deny yourself empirical assistance and insights from those who have oversight of Thorn Tree, its travellers’ and their exchanges.Can you please organise for a copy of the paper to be sent to the Community management team at Lonely Planet?You can attention it to me, at: [email protected] thanks, and congratulations again on your achievement.
Congrats Mridula.
Hobo, many thanks.Sandeep thanks for your wishes.Thanks Shrinidhi.Venessa, many thanks for your comments. But don’t jump to conclusions. When I started my research the moderator was RoamnB and I still retain the PM where he granted me permission to take TT data and ask for permission from authors to use specific quotes. Incidentally I have written on how to use message board data for research purposes. Let me know, if you wish, I can send a copy of that too along with the current paper to the address you have provided above. Nilesh, many thanks.
Congrats! I have read the abstract. Now I am staring into space wondering if that girl at the party would be impressed if I tell her that i know about ‘netnography which is ethnography applied to the internet’. (Am also relieved that you have the documented consent for the query raised above.)
My apologies for the incorrect assumption. You may delete the post if you wish. We have countless academics, market researchers and journalists on Thorn Tree constantly attempting to conduct research without consent, and we’re working very hard to curb this behaviour and forge an *open* dialogue.I’m afraid we take a very hard line on commerically orientated/market research in particular. It’s simply not appropriate for people to leverage the goodwill and contributions of our members to advance their own commerical opportunities. We are very open to collaboration with theorists and strictly academic research, and we are happy to work with journalists, provided they behave ethically (many do not). Roman has been gone such a long time it simply didn’t occur to me you may have discussed this with him 🙂 My bad. I’d love a copy of your thinking on messages board research. I have an impending paper on Virtual Ethnography that touches this also. We can swap notes.I look forward to my copy of both.
Venessa, many thanks for this comment. I must say I was a bit taken aback with the first one. I am so sorry to hear about the attempts to conduct research without asking for permission first. And i understand now your first comment much better. Getting a paper published taks some time, hence this lag between data collection and getting it to see in print. I would soon get the papers across to you and look forward to compare notes.