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Dwyer, C., Hiltz, S. R. and Passerini, K. (2007) Trust and privacy concern within social networking sites: A comparison of Facebook and MySpace. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, Colorado August 9–12th 2007.
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Bailenson, J. N. and Beall, A. C. (2006) Transformed social interaction: Exploring the digital plasticity of avatars, in Schroeder, R and Axelsson, A. Avatars at Work and Play: Collaboration and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments. London. Springer. pp. 1-16.

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Beaulieu, A. (2004) Mediating ethnography: objectivity and the making of ethnographies of the internet, Social Epistemology, 18, 2-3, 139-163.

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Allen, G. N., Burk, D.L. and Ess, C. (2008) Ethical Approaches to Robotic Data Gathering in Academic Research, International Journal of Internet Research Ethics, 1, 1, 9-36.

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