Web Survey Bibliography
People get a lot of their political information from visual media, yet we know very little about the impact on political knowledge that images have. In a set of experiments embedded in a general population survey, I examine the effect of adding visual elements to traditional verbal knowledge questions. Then, I compare respondents' performance on two scales of political knowledge, a scale that measures visual recognition of politicians, and a traditional verbal knowledge scale. Data for this paper comes from a web-based survey of 2,358 randomly selected U.S. residents. Using a web-based survey design allows me to add photos of politicians to knowledge questions. I find, first, that minimal visual cues can increase people's performance on verbal political knowledge tests. Second, the analysis reveals clear differences between the sources of verbal and visual political knowledge. People who prefer visual news media-television news, rather than radio news or newspapers-have greater visual political knowledge. Verbal knowledge, in contrast, increases with political interest regardless of which medium people prefer. Basing our assessments of political knowledge only on verbal measures thus hides a major contribution of TV news to increasing political knowledge and disadvantages people in traditional knowledge tests who get a lot of their political information from television.
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Web survey bibliography - Conference proceedings (83)
- The Influence of Human Cues on Drop-out and Answer Behaviour within Web Surveys; 2008; Oesterlau, T., Geißler, H.
- Sampling for web surveys; 2007; Rivers, D.
- Reconstructing childhood health histories using internet panels; 2007; Smith, J. P.
- Pilot study to recruite a sample for an online panel: Effects of contact mode, incentives and information...; 2007; Scherpenzeel, A.
- Modes, trends, and content: A comparison of the 2003 HRS internet survey with HRS 2002 and 2004 Core...; 2007; Weir, D.
- Lessons learned: Converting a telephone survey panel to an internet panel; 2007; Roe, D. J., Stockdale, J., Farrelly, M., Heinrich, T.
- Developments in electronic survey design for establishment surveys; 2007; O'Neill, G.
- Response time measurement in the lab and on the Web: A comparison; 2007; Galesic, M., Reips, U.-D., Kaczmirek, L., Czienskowski, U., Liske, N., von Oertzen, T.
- Questionnaire and Survey Design for Online Research; 2007; Wydra, D., Fisher, L., Strunk, K.
- Using Technology to Improve Data Quality; 2007; Cunningham, J., Pearson, C., Parkhurst, D.
- Mobile Phone Data Collection; 2007; Lavine, S.
- Effects of Offering Web Questionnaires as an Option in Enterprise Surveys: the Swedish Experience; 2007; Erikson, J., Furubjelke, E.
- Using the Web for Surveys of Medical Providers; 2007; Narayanan, V., Giambo, P., Fry, S., Crafts, J.
- Boosting Response Rates: Are There Optimal Times to Email Respondents?; 2007; Bennett-Harper, S., O'Brien, J., Levin, K., Davis, B., Shipp, S., Campbell, S., Sienkiewicz, R.
- Beyond Demographics: Are ‘Webographic’ Questions Useful for Reducing the Selection Bias...; 2007; Schonlau, M., van Soest, A., Kapteyn, A.
- Maximising respondent engagement: The use of rich media; 2007; Reid, J., Morden, M., Perez Echeverria, A.
- Truth in measurement: Comparing Web Based interviewing Techniques; 2007; Couper, M. P., Terhanian, G., Bremer, J., Thomas, R. K.
- The power of the visible: Visual design for Web surveys; 2006; Couper, M. P.
- Attitudinal differences. Comparing people who belong to multiple versus single panels; 2006; Casdas, D., Fine, B., Menictas, C.
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- The professional respondent problem in online panel surveys today; 2005; Fulgoni, G.
- Satisficing behavior in online panelists; 2005; Downes-Le Guin, T.
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- More than a thousand words? Visual cues and visual knowledge; 2002; Prior, M.
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- Practical methods for sampling rare and mobile populations; 2001; Kalton, G.
- Building an alternative response process model for business surveys; 2001; Willimack, D. K., Nichols, E. M.
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- The Prodigy Experiment in Using e-Mail for Tracking Public Opinion; 1995; Werner, J., Maisel, R., Robinson, K.
- Respondent preferences toward audio-CASI and how that affects data quality; 1995; Kinsey, S. H., Thornberry, J. S., Carson, C. P., Duffer, A. P.
- Best pracices in disk-by-mail surveys; 1992; Witt, K. J., Bernstein, S.
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