Web Survey Bibliography
Cognitive interviewing can identify potential errors in a survey prior to a large data collection effort allowing researchers to effectively pretest a draft survey instrument. Digital technologies afford researchers the opportunity to overcome geographic and logistical limitations of conducting these interviews with a diverse sample. The convenience of interviewing participants online includes reduced travel time and the ability to schedule interviews outside of normal business hours, reducing participant burden with certain populations including online users. The Second Life population was of interest to researchers in this study. Second Life is a virtual world where users self-represent through avatars. Purposes of play include socializing, entertainment and education. New technologies such as the virtual world Second Life and the voice-overinternet software Skype were utilized to conduct cognitive interviews pretesting a draft instrument on virtual world avatar similarity. A series of questions asked participants to describe several physical and personality characteristics of both themselves and their avatars. The goal of this questionnaire was to determine the extent to which SL users viewed their avatars as similar to their real life counterparts. Interviews were conducted in three modes: Second Life, Skype and face-to-face. To determine the feasibility of conducting cognitive interviews digitally, analyses were conducted to compare data quality across each mode; analyses identified the number, type and severity of errors detected. Preliminary findings suggest that interviews conducted in Skype and Second Life yield, on average, the same number of errors. Comparison data are presented from all three modes. Second Life and Skype can be used to conduct cognitive interviews with a sample of online participants, though each mode has its own consideration and limitations for study design and implementation. These implications are discussed and recommendations explored for researchers interested in other digital cognitive interviewing modes.
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- 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.