Hey guys. I am an Anthropology student at UNT conducting research on the rock climbing culture. I am planning on observing and participating in the general, bouldering, and US-South forums for the next 2 weeks or so. I've been climbing for about 3 years now and really feel like the culture rock climbing has developed over the past two decades or so stands out from all other subcultures/countercultures I have encoutered. This is my first exdperience in online forums and am psyched to get this going.

Hey, for a more accurate view of climbers' culture, I shudder at you trying to use this website as data. .

...no reputable college would ever allow someone to use a forum as a reference for a research paper, that's ludicrous. Most colleges don't even want you to use the Internet for a research paper unless your reference comes from a .mil, .gov, or .edu site or something like Google Scholar or a digital library. Most colleges want their students to use peer reviewed published documents and books in research papers.

Hey guys. I am an Anthropology student at UNT conducting research on the rock climbing culture. I am planning on observing and participating in the general, bouldering, and US-South forums for the next 2 weeks or so. I've been climbing for about 3 years now and really feel like the culture rock climbing has developed over the past two decades or so stands out from all other subcultures/countercultures I have encoutered. This is my first exdperience in online forums and am psyched to get this going.

Uhh... you don't know what you're talking about in terms of primary or secondary sources. For anthropological research on cultures and subcultures, message boards can be an excellent primary source.

I agree, and anyway, no reputable college would ever allow someone to use a forum as a reference for a research paper, that's ludicrous.

The school I attend has a mandatory requirement of at least one research paper per week for all classes in the 1xx - 6xx levels so I get to have all kinds of fun writing countless papers and looking up references. Okay, so maybe they allow it in anthropology, I am an IT major, so that's not my field. But in my major, I am only authorized to use known accurate sources as a primary reference. Some professors only authorize peer reviewed sources. I can list a forum on an annotated bib, but not an APA or MLA formatted reference page and I could never use in-text citations for paraphrased or direct quote material from a forum. The only exception would be if the topic I am writing is so completely esoteric that rc.knob was the only place I could possibly get the info from, then it may be authorized, but I suspect the professor would just tell me to choose a different topic. I wish I could use forums and Wikipedia and other crap .com sites in my references, it would cut my research time by 500%...

Uhh... you don't know what you're talking about in terms of primary or secondary sources. For anthropological research on cultures and subcultures, message boards can be an excellent primary source.

The school I attend has a mandatory requirement of at least one research paper per week

Uhh... you don't know what you're talking about in terms of primary or secondary sources. For anthropological research on cultures and subcultures, message boards can be an excellent primary source.

Hey guys. I am an Anthropology student at UNT conducting research on the rock climbing culture. I am planning on observing and participating in the general, bouldering, and US-South forums for the next 2 weeks or so. I've been climbing for about 3 years now and really feel like the culture rock climbing has developed over the past two decades or so stands out from all other subcultures/countercultures I have encoutered. This is my first exdperience in online forums and am psyched to get this going.

and the impression that we're all a bunch of assholes.

OP, I don't think you're going to get an accurate feel for the climbing culture on any website. The best you're going to get is a sense of the lingo... and the impression that we're all a bunch of assholes.

Don't the two underlined portions contradict?

Well, you certainly know more about it than I do, but I'm still skeptical. What sort of information do anthropologists glean from forums?

Hey guys. I am an Anthropology student at UNT conducting research on the rock climbing culture. I am planning on observing and participating in the general, bouldering, and US-South forums for the next 2 weeks or so. I've been climbing for about 3 years now and really feel like the culture rock climbing has developed over the past two decades or so stands out from all other subcultures/countercultures I have encoutered. This is my first exdperience in online forums and am psyched to get this going.

Hey guys. I am an Anthropology student at UNT conducting research on the rock climbing culture. I am planning on observing and participating in the general, bouldering, and US-South forums for the next 2 weeks or so. I've been climbing for about 3 years now and really feel like the group of anti-social fuck ups has developed over the past two decades or so stands out from all other monkeys that like to hump doorknobs I have encoutered. This is my first exdperience in online forums and am psyched to get this going.

'matter' offered: http://repository.tamu.edu/... and anticipated "You're welcome."

Thank you indeed. Tiresome wading through, but interesting for specific comments made and suppositions confirmed. IMO simple exercise was under-represented; and non-college-based participation was more countered with a limited control group than balanced. I was surprised by the income level, and had doubted the level of education. The founding notion that land managers/planners would use such studies seems ridiculous to me, based in a state park.

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