Web Survey Bibliography
As social interactions are increasingly conducted in social networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook.com, there are huge opportunities for social network researchers. SNSs record detailed information on the attributes of users and their relationships, with considerable overlap with real life social networks.
But there are many methodological and ethical issues associated with research using data from SNSs, ranging from how to collect the data to reliability and generalizability of results.
One of the core challenges with using SNS data for social network analysis is that it is typically impossible to define the population sampling frame, and hence researchers need to resort to non-probability based sampling methods such as snowball sampling. This paper outlines an approach for conducting snowball sampling using Facebook.com.
We argue that some SNS features may actually help researchers to overcome some of the ethical and methodological challenges of snowball sampling. Using non-probability based sampling results in some biases in data and results especially when the collected data is networking behaviour. Some of SNS features can help researchers to avoid some inherent conflicts between ethical and methodological issues of snowball sampling like conflict between participants’ anonymity and non-representative volunteers recruited into the sample. In this way, SNS can encourage voluntary participation by acting as a legitimate proxy between researcher and participants (ensuring privacy); facilitate ensuring anonymity (compared to real life snowball sampling) by assigning unique ID to users and possibility of robot mediated data collection. We further contend that SNSs can potentially mitigate snowball sampling biases somehow by reducing dependence on respondents via providing archived real activities (rather than self-reported) and possibility of broadcasting the invitation to participation (act as a media) and the possibility of checking volunteers eligibility.
This paper will explore and discuss these challenges in the context of an Australian government-funded study into the role of online social networks on successful ageing.
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Web survey bibliography (109)
- The use of online social networks as a promotional tool for self-administered internet surveys; 2016; de Rada, V. D.; Arino, L. V. C; Blasco, M. G
- Exploring the Feasibility of Using Facebook for Surveying Special Interest Populations ; 2016; Lee, C.; Jang, S.
- Longitudinal Online Ego-centric Social Network Data Collection with EgoWeb 2.0 ; 2016; Amin, A.; Kennedy, D.
- Problems and Prospects in Survey Research; 2016; Moy, P.; Murphy, J.
- A Framework of Incorporating Thai Social Networking Data in Online Marketing Survey; 2016; Jiamthapthaksin, R.; Aung, T. H.; Ratanasawadwat, N.
- Improving social media measurement in surveys: Avoiding acquiescence bias in Facebook research; 2016; Kuru, O.; Pasek, J.
- Online and Social Media Data As an Imperfect Continuous Panel Survey; 2016; Diaz, F.; Garmon, F.; Hofman, J. K.; Kiciman, E.; Rothschild, D.
- Social Media Analyses for Social Measurement; 2016; Schober, M. F.; Pasek, J.; Guggenheim, L.; Lampe, C.; Conrad, F. G.
- Doing Surveys Online ; 2016; Toepoel, V.
- Taming Big Data: Using App Technology to Study Organizational Behavior on Social Media; 2015; Bail, C. A.
- Validation of the new scale for measuring behaviors of Facebook users: Psycho-Social Aspects of Facebook...; 2015; Bodroza, B.; Jovanovic, T.
- Facebook as a Tool for Respondent Tracing; 2015; Schneider, S. J., Burke-Garcia, A., Thomas, G.
- Predictors of inconsistent responding in web surveys; 2015; Akbulut, Y.
- Does Opinion Leadership Increase the Followers on Twitter; 2015; Hwang, Y.
- A Mixed Methods Approach to Network Data Collection; 2014; Rice, E., Holloway, I. W., Barman-Adhikari, A., Fuentes, D., Brown, C. H., Palinkas, L. A.
- Facebook, Twitter, & Qr Codes: An Exploratory Trial Examining The Feasibility Of Social Media Mechanisms...; 2014; Gu, L. L.
- Build your own social network laboratory with Social Lab: a tool for research in social media; 2014; Garaizar, P., Reips, U.-D.
- Use of a Google Map Tool Embedded in an Internet Survey Instrument: Is it a Valid and Reliable Alternative...; 2014; Dasgupta, S., Vaughan, A. S., Kramer, M. R., Sanchez, T. H., Sullivan, P. S.
- Using respondent tweets to fill in survey gaps; 2014; Murphy, J.
- The quality of ego-centered social network data in web surveys: experiments with a visual elicitation...; 2014; Marcin, B., Matzat, U., Snijders, C.
- Social Media and Surveys: Collaboration, Not Competition; 2014; Couper, M. P.
- Recent Books and Journals in Public Opinion, Survey Methods, and Survey Statistics; 2014; Callegaro, M.
- Social Media and Online Survey: Tools for Knowledge Management in Health Research ; 2014; Merolli, M., Sanchez, F. J. M., Gray, K.
- Using Online Social Media for Recruitment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Positive Participants: A Cross...; 2014; Yuan, P., Bare, M. G., Johnson, M. O., Saberi, P.
- Online Surveys as a Management Tool for Monitoring Multicultual Virtual Team Processes; 2014; Scovotti, C.
- Picking up the Bread Crumbs: Holistic Insights from Social Media; 2014; Souda, P.
- The Future of Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research; 2013; Hill, C., Dever, J. A.
- Collecting Diary Data on Twitter; 2013; Richards, A., Dean, E., Cook, S.
- Second Life as a Survey Lab: Exploring the Randomized Response Technique in a Virtual Setting; 2013; Richards, A., Dean, E.
- Virtual Cognitive Interviewing Using Skype and Second Life; 2013; Dean, E., Head, B., Swicegood, J. E.
- Sentiment Analysis: Providing Categorical Insight into Unstructured Textual Data; 2013; Haney, C.
- Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research; 2013; Hill, C., Dean, E., Murphy, J.
- Different approaches to measure ego-centered social support networks: a meta-analysis; 2013; Hlebec, V., Kogovsek, T.
- Online questionnaire development: Using film to engage participants and then gather attitudes towards...; 2013; Middleton, A., Bragin, E., Morley, K. I., Parker, M.
- Customer satisfaction in Web 2.0 and information technology development; 2013; Sharma, G., Baoku, L.
- Online Survey on Twitter: A Urological Experience; 2013; Dal Moro, F.
- Social media data demands a marriage of high-tech and high-touch; 2013; Waldheim, C., Stevens, N.
- Conceptualising and evaluating experiences with brands on Facebook; 2013; Smith, S.
- Discovering interest groups for marketing in virtual communities: An integrated approach; 2013; Wang, K.-Y., Wu, H.-J., Ting, I.-H.
- New social media, new social science?; 2013; Woodfield, K., Morrell, G.
- Cognitive Interviewing in Online Modes: a Comparison of Data Collected in Second Life and Skype; 2013; Swicegood, J. E., Head, B., Dean, E., Keating, M.
- Social Network Analysis and Survey Response: How Facebook Data Can Supplement Survey Data; 2013; Sage, A.
- The Use of Email, Text Messages, and Facebook to Increase Response Rates Among Adolescents in a Longitudinal...; 2013; Fleeman, A., Francis, K., Henderson, Ti., Woodford, M., Jani, M.
- Internet-Based Recruitment to a Depression Prevention Intervention: Lessons From the Mood Memos Study...; 2013; Morgan, A. J., Jorm, A. F., Mackinnon, A. J.
- Sampling online communities: using triplets as basis for a (semi-) automated hyperlink web crawler.; 2013; Veny, Y.
- Use of a Social Networking Web Site for Recruiting Canadian Youth for Medical Research; 2013; Chu, J. L., Snider, C. E.
- How and when social media storms impact brands; 2012; Morris, A., Perry, H.
- Biting the Hand and Bending the Rules: An IJMR Presentation; 2012; Pettit, A.
- A survey of social media usage integrating daily Facebook participation time with in-person social interaction...; 2012; Mishra, S.
- The integration of facebook into class management: an exploratory study; 2012; Chou, P. N.