Web Survey Bibliography
Title Internet Research Tracings: Towards Non-Reductionist Methodology
Author Dahlberg, L.
Source Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 9, 3
Year 2004
Access date 20.05.2004
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Abstract Internet research has become a "field" in its own right in the social sciences, already boasting a number of peer-reviewed journals, a plethora of book titles, and an international association that draws hundreds of researchers from across the globe to its annual conference. This paper contributes to this burgeoning field at a meta-methodological level by considering what is needed to achieve non-reductionist understandings of the Internet. It shows how Internet research perspectives draw upon various established media and technology research traditions. These can be grouped according to their emphasis upon three different aspects of determination influencing media technology outcomes: uses, where the instrumental use of the artifact is brought to the fore; technological, where the form of media technology is focused upon; and social, where the structuring of outcomes by social determinants is central. Consideration of the research traditions emphasizing each of these aspects gives access to previously recognized strengths and weaknesses associated with each. In particular, my critical examination highlights how each perspective can fall into overly deterministic arguments: instrumentalist, technological determinist, and social determinist. As such, I argue that to gain non-reductionist understandings of the Internet, research ideally needs to take into account the complex interplay between multiple constituting elements. I point to a number of existing media technology approaches that can help with this task. However, I also acknowledge the limitations placed on research by resource constraints and recognize that researchers may wish to follow a particular tradition and focus on a single determination. I argue that these researchers must at least recognize the multi-dimensionality of determination, and be reflexive about the limits of their approaches, methods, and findings.
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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.