Web Survey Bibliography
Title Using E-mail To Survey Internet Users In The United States: Methodology And Assessment
Author Sheehan, K. B., Hoy, M. G.
Source Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 4, 3
Year 1999
Access date 20.05.2004
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Abstract The Internet’s potential for academic and applied research has recently begun to be acknowledged and assessed. To date, researchers have used Web page-based surveys to study large groups of on-line users and e-mail surveys to study smaller, more homogenous on-line user groups. A relatively untapped use for the Internet is to use e-mail to survey broader Internet populations on both a national and international basis. Our experience using e-mail to study a national sample of Internet users is presented, beginning with a discussion of how a sample of on-line users can be selected using a ’people finder’ search engine. We include an evaluation of the demographic characteristics of the respondent pool compared to both a web page-based survey and a telephone survey of Internet users. Considerations for researchers who are evaluating this method for their own studies are provided.
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Web Survey Bibliography - Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (JCMC) (30)
- Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites; 2008; Hargittai, E.
- Internet Technology and Social Capital:How the Internet Affects Seniors' Social Capital and Wellbeing...; 2008; Sum, S., Mathews, M. R., Pourghasem, M., Hughes, I.
- Item-Level Nonresponse Rates in an Attitudinal Survey of Teachers Delivered via Mail and Web; 2008; Wolfe, E. W., Converse, P. D., Oswald, F. L.
- The benefits of Facebook “friends:” Social capital and college students' use of online...; 2007; Ellison, N. B., Steinfield, C., Lampe, C.
- Perceptions of News Credibility about the War in Iraq: Why War Opponents Perceived the Internet as the...; 2006; Choi, J.H., Watt, J.H., Lynch, M.
- The Internet and Anti-War Activism: A Case Study of Information, Expression, and Action; 2006; Nah, S., Veenstra, A.S., Shah, D. V.
- The Effect of Communication Medium on Research Participation Decisions; 2006; Chesney, T.
- Traditional and Online Support Networks in the Cross-Cultural Adaptation of Chinese International Students...; 2006; Ye, J.
- The Pass-Along Effect: Investigating Word-of-Mouth Effects on Online Survey Procedures; 2006; Norman, A. T.; de Rouvray, C. A.Russell, C. A.; de Rouvray, C.
- Online communities: design, theory, and practice; 2005; Preece, J., Maloney-Krichmar, D.
- The Story of Subject Naught: A Cautionary but Optimistic Tale of Internet Survey Research; 2005; Konstan, J. A., Ross, M. W., Rosser, B. R. S., Stanton, J. M., Edwards, W. M.
- Organizational Virtual Communities: Exploring Motivations Behind Online Panel Participation; 2005; Daugherty, T., Lee, W. -N., Gangadharbatla, H., Kim, K., Outhavong, S.
- Researching Internet-Based Populations: Advantages and Disadvantages of Online Survey Research, Online...; 2005; Wright, K. B.
- Bloggers' Expectations of Privacy and Accountability: An Initial Survey; 2005; Viégas, F. B.
- Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology; 2004; Dahlberg, L.
- Gratification Niches of Monthly Print Magazines and the World Wide Web Among a Group of Special-Interest...; 2003; Randle, Q.
- Hyperlink Analyses of the World Wide Web: A Review; 2003; Park, H. W., Thelwall, M.
- Design of Web Survey Questionnaires: Three Basic Experiments; 2002; Lozar Manfreda, K., Batagelj, Z., Vehovar, V.
- First Things First: Internet Relay Chat Openings; 2001; Rintel, E. S., Mulholland, J., Pittam, J.
- Survival of the Fittest Online: A Longitudinal Study of Health-Related Web Sites; 2001; McMillan, S. J.
- From Cyber Space to Cybernetic Space: Rethinking the Relationship between Real and Virtual Spaces; 2001; Mitra, A., Schwartz, R. L.
- Classifying Response Behaviors in Web-based Surveys; 2001; Bosnjak, M., Tuten, T. L.
- E-mail Survey Response Rates: A Review; 2001; Sheehan, K. B.
- On Utopias and Dystopias: Toward an Understanding of the Discourse Surrounding the Internet; 2001; Fisher, D. R., Wright, L. M.
- The Value of Web Log Data in Use-Based Design and Testing; 2001; Burton, M. C., Walther, J. B.
- Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, E-mail, & Web Form; 2000; Yun, G. W., Trumbo, C. W.
- Functional Work Groups and Evaluations of Communication Channels: Comparisons of Six Competing Theoretical...; 2000; Johnson, J. D., Chang, H. -J., Pobocik, S., Ethington, C., Ruesch, D., Wooldridge, J.
- Using E-mail To Survey Internet Users In The United States: Methodology And Assessment; 1999; Sheehan, K. B., Hoy, M. G.
- Online - The Future of Newspapers? Germany's Dailies on the World Wide Web; 1998; Neuberger, C., Tonnemacher, J., Biebl, M., Duck, A.
- Casting the Net: Surveying an Internet Population; 1997; Smith, C. B.