title: Between Cyberplace and Cyberspace: the researcher's role in virtual setting research.
abstract: Disciplines such as Internet Research, the Psychology of Cyberspace and the Social Psychology of Cyberplaces call for an epistemological reflection not merely on the universe of objects they deal with, but also, and perhaps especially, on the research settings used to investigate them. With this work, we intend to make a contribution to the debate on three issues: psychosocial interpretation of the new environments, the "mediated" nature of the researcher-setting-study object relationship, and cyberplaces as settings for mediated interaction research.
authors.affiliation: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Centro Studi e Ricerche di Psicologia della Comunicazione Milano, Italy.
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Galimberti
authors.forename: Eleonora
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Brivio
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cantamesse
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004777:Environment; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012107:Research Design; D017216:Telemedicine; D014584:User-Computer Interface