e-research

As far as I understand e-research is either the use of the internet or other web applications as a means to do research or find information. So it would be the use of online sources like e-journals and e-publications or the use of search engines. Or it is the actual study of the use of these kinds of processes. From what I'll admit is a pretty confused understanding of what VKS is and does I think they are more about the latter. It is the study of the internet and how it is used, etc that they consider to be e-research. Not even sure if I'm on the right track....

For instantiating it into our project we've already talked about looking into online communities like flickr and youtube to find examples of visual manifestations of our topic, to take it further we could do a deeper analysis of how people have used these websites to post their photos/videos.