I've deleted my new Youtube vlog account because I've realized that I need to do my fieldwork in a much more systematized way - like, logging every one of my actions online and on youtube. I need to have my methodology written up and approved by my advisers before I dive into things. Originally I had thought about this before I put up my first video, actually, but decided to jump the gun anyways because I thought I could just change my identity and start making new videos pretending I was new to the scene...but what about people that might recognize me?

Felix Poon productions will have to wait until I have a substantial literature review, and a methodology approved (and possibly even IRB! - for my non-academic readers, IRB stands for institutional review board, which approves or rejects research proposals depending on whether they could potentially harm the research subjects. For example, in the old days there was a researcher named Milgrim who wanted to study authoritarianism in its micro psychological aspect. So the subjects sat with the researcher and could see into this other room where another guy was. This other guy was actually working for the researcher, but pretended to be another subject. So the real subject was told to shock the faux subject every time he answered a question wrong by pushing a button. In some cases, the faux subject was going to convulsions or passed out, but the subjects were told to continue shocking. Some of them continued to shock them. They were all told in the end that the faux subject was just acting, but it turned out that some of the subjects came out of the experience psychologically scarred. Because of these kinds of ethical breaches, now everyone needs to go through irb even if it is as harmless as setting up a youtube account.)

Anyway, my Youtube videos will have to wait until January or February.