Web Survey Bibliography
Internet users are increasingly required to disclose personal information, especially for being able to take part in the so-called Social Web. Applications like social networking platforms, blogs and wikis offer participation and collaboration opportunities, but require the user’s willingness to reveal private information. Typically for the Social Web, making the self known to other users is crucial for being accepted as a part of the community.
In recent years, researchers found a heightened self-disclosure in computer-mediated communication (e. g. Joinson 2001, Tidwell/Walther 2002, Suler 2004). It can be argued whether this is a precondition for or a result of the rising Social Web.
At the same time privacy concerns of users increased. But so far there is relatively little evidence that users translate concerns about data abuse to privacy-enhancing behaviours while online. Joinson et al. (2008) showed that people’s dispositional privacy attitudes hardly influence their interpretation of specific online situations. Situational cues seem to be the main factor influencing the user’s self-disclosure. Therefore, it is necessary to think about the perceived trustworthiness of Social Web providers. Another main aspect is the awareness of the disclosure. Does revealing personal information ‘just happen’ or do users decide consciously about what information they disclose? If so, according to which criteria? Or do users even feel impelled to disclose personal data?
To answer these questions, four qualitative focus group discussions were conducted. This method allows testing persons interacting with each other. With this, even subliminal attitudes and reasons may be accessed and verbalised. People with an active use of the Social Web (e. g. writing an own blog) and people who show a more passive use (e. g. commentating blogs regularly) were interviewed in separate groups. The group size was about eight to ten people of different sex, age, education and profession.
Within these groups, self-disclosing behaviour in different Social Web applications as well as reasons for it were discussed. The results delivered a deep insight into the factors that influences the self-disclosure of Social Web users. Different explanations for the often occuring discrepancy between attitudes and behaviours of Web users were found.
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- Verbal Vs Visual Response Options: Reconciling Meanings Conveyed by a Computer Aided Visual Rating Scale...; 2009; Garland, P., Cape, P.
- Increasing response rates in list based samples; 2009; Keusch, F., Kurz, H., Penzkofer, P.
- Resolving the Privacy Paradox? - How Privacy Concerns, Strategic Self-presentation, and Norms Influence...; 2009; Utz, S.
- AGOF internet facts – increasing the response rate for onsite-surveys; 2009; Foerstel, H.
- Implementation of a reaction time tool for brand measurement at Swisscom; 2009; Paar, I., Urbahn, J.
- It’s all about customer satisfaction - Advantages and limitations of online surveys in applied...; 2009; Einhorn, M., Klein-Reesink, T., Löffler, M.
- Potential Of The Mobile Internet - What You Ask Is What You Get; 2009; Neubarth, W., Maier, U., Geißlitz, A.
- Measuring Network Quality: Strengths and Weaknesses of different Evaluation Methods (SMS, w@p and web...; 2009; Wallisch, A., Schwab, H.
- Challenges in Recruiting Special Groups in Internet Panel Research; 2009; Marchand, M., Vis, C.
- Panel Conditioning in Web Surveys: A Comparison between Trained and Fresh Respondents; 2009; Toepoel, V., Das, M., van Soest, A.
- Using Tag Clouds to Analyse and Visualise Results of Open Ended Questions; 2009; Melles, T., Jaron, R.
- Measuring Perceived Virtual Social Support in Online Self-Help Groups; 2009; Preiß, H.
- Personalization as Strategy to Increase Response Rates; 2009; Althoff, S.
- Understanding the willingness to participate in mobile surveys: Exploring the role of hedonic, affective...; 2009; Bosnjak, M., Metzger, G.
- Integrating Mobile Surveys into digital market research: Recommendations for Mobile Panel operation...; 2009; Friedrich-Freksa, M., de Groote, Z., Metzger, G.
- Measurement options, measurement error, and usability in mobile surveys; 2009; Pferdekämper, T., Bosnjak, M., Metzger, G.
- The new IT environment for the Italian consumer price survey; 2009; Giannini, R., Polidoro, F., Sgamba, A. M., Silipo, M., Spagnuolo, F., Virgillito, A.
- Comparative analysis among open source and commercial software for the development of electronic questionnaires...; 2009; Capparucci, L., Degortes, M., Landriscina, M., Murgia, M.
- The automatic coding of Economic Activities descriptions for WEB users; 2009; Colasanti, C., Macchia, S., Vicari, P.
- Large Scale Digital Data Collection in Developing Countries: Is The Time Right? ; 2009; Hattas, M., Cronje, M., Berard, O.
- Privacy concerns and electronic data collection: group and individual response to social change in communications...; 2009; Odella, F.
- The relative coverage bias caused by the mobile-only population across Europe; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Implementation of web-based data-collection channel eSTAT for economic entities; 2009; Sillajoe, T.
- Acceptability of the use of new technologies by interviewees in surveys; 2009; Roux, S., Marchal, P., Armoogum, J.
- Optimal Contact Strategy in a Mail and Web Mixed Mode Survey ; 2009; Holmberg, A., Lorenc, B., Werner, P.
- Optimising survey costs in mixed mode environment; 2009; Vehovar, V., Berzelak, N., Lozar Manfreda, K., Belak, E.
- Integrated statistical systems: an approach to preserve coherence between a set of surveys based on...; 2009; Ballin, M., De Francisci, S., Scanu, M., Tininini, L., Vicard, P.
- A guide to conducting online research; 2009; Gaiser, T. J., Schreiner, A. E.
- Visual Heuristics and Answer Formats in Rating Scales; 2009; Toepoel, V. Dillman, D. A.
- A literature review on constructing answer formats; 2009; Menold, N., Kaczmirek, L., Hoffmeyer-Zlotnik, J.
- Social Web and Self-Disclosure = Participation vs. Privacy? Exploring How Users Manage this Dilemma...; 2009; Taddicken, M., Jers, C., Schenk, M.
- Personality on Social Network Sites: An Application of the Five Factor Model; 2009; Wehrli, S.
- Money for Surveys: What about Data-Quality?; 2009; A.Krosnick, J. A.
- Can a moral reasoning exercise improve response quality to surveys of healthcare priorities?; 2009; Johri, M.
- Use of Online Interviews in the Underlying Discourse Unveiling Method (UDUM); 2009; Nicolaci-da-Costa, A. M., Romao-Dias, D., Di Luccio, F.
- Arts-humanities.net – from community website to (social) knowledgebase?; 2009; Reimer, T.
- Mashups to Meshups and the Web of Data; 2009; Glaser, H.
- Practical Web 2.0 - Related Technologies and Building Mashups; 2009; Borkum, M., Bhagat, J.
- International Handbook of Internet Research; 2009; Hunsinger, J., Klastrup, L., Allen, M.
- Converting to Blaise 4.8 for CATI and CAWI Surveys; 2009; Hart, L., Reid, S.
- Introduction to Webometrics: Quantitative Web Research for the Social Sciences; 2009; Thelwall, M.
- Online Research Essentials: Designing and Implementing Research Studies; 2009; Russell, B., Purcell, J.
- Survey Response Rates and Survey Administration in Counseling and Clinical Psychology A Meta-Analysis...; 2009; Van Horn, P. S., Green, K. E., Martinussen, M.
- Assessing Medical Information Needs Via an Internet-Based Survey; 2009; Fung, S. M., Merriman, L., Cawley, M.
- Estimating the robustness of questionnaire results: lessons from a mixed-mode survey of expectations...; 2009; Bonsall, P., Shires, J.
- Creating Online Surveys: Some Wisdom from the Trenches Tutorial ; 2009; Singh, A., Taneja, A., Mangalaraj, G.
- Attrition Bias in a US Internet Survey of Alcohol Use Among College Freshmen ; 2009; McCoy, T. P., Ip, E. H., Blocker, J. N., Champion, H., Rhodes, S. D., Wagoner, K. G., Mitra, A., Wolfson...
- Short Message Service (SMS) Technology in Alcohol Research-A Feasibility Study; 2009; Kuntsche, E., Robert, B.
- Online Survey Tools: Ethical and Methodological Concerns of Human Research Ethics Committees; 2009; Buchanan, E. A., Hvizdak, E. E.
- Employment Tribunal web survey: Results of an online survey 19 March - 2 April 2009; 2009; Anonymous