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The internet is used by social scientists in a lot of ways to gather data about social phenomena; there are “Web-based questionnaires, Web experiments, observations of virtual worlds, case narrations, content analyses, and analysis of mailing lists and other log data” (Batanic/Reips/Bošnjak 2002: back cover). In order to classify the huge amount of different activities social scientists use the web...