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WashburnK on SongP, Biomedical Odysseys—Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China

Although the topic of the text is in itself interesting to me, I think the most notable portion of the sketch was the answer about the authors reflexivity. In response to this it is stated that, “The author reflects on ethnographer's role doing research in digital platform: how to credit the authors of online discussion stream? How to protect their identities without losing academic integrity?” I think these are really important questions to answer as so much of our communication exists in a digital space making it such a rich source of data relevant to ethnographic inquiries and would be interested to see how the author navigates these issues.

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