Internet

As far as intenet development goes, the participation of user is vast. And with the trillion of data which contain on the virtual, it is hard to do a research single hand. The traditional way of research included two approach. The quantitative and the qualitative. Basically one is focus on more about the activities and the other one is more about the frequency.There are disadvantages in both approach, hence a single way won't be able to present a comprehensive result about the study.

Secondly, the similarity of virtual culture and the actual culture where we all living in right now is pretty close. There are different culture within the internet as well, not only subject-wise, as well as identity-wise or many more other aspects. This form of Virtual Sociology had an impact on the research approach which is the ethical issue. Not only in the sense that different meaning from variety of culture, but also gaining permission for accessing the require information. The lack of info could lead to insufficient data calculation which alter the result.

Internet would still be consider as a relatively new medium. Imagine the time when scholar spent on knowing studying television. Internet would need at least the same amount of time and possibly soon to be develop theory to understand the way that it function.