Web Survey Bibliography
Operating a personal home page provides the individual with an opportunity for self-presentation which potentials go far beyond that of traditional media. Owners can make use of the full scope of internet media, are relatively unrestricted by limitations of space and other resources, and may present themselves to a virtually unlimited audience spread over the entire world. These features make research on personal home pages a potentially fruitful avenue for the study of self-presentational strategies, as is evident from the growing attention the topic has received from psychology as well as other disciplines in recent years. The question of representativeness of the samples used in this research, however, has hardly been addressed to date.
The present paper reviews the sampling procedures employed in previous research with respect to their representativeness for the universe of personal home pages. It is argued that serious systematic distortion is likely to be present with most of these approaches. As a potential solution to this problem, an alternative approach is proposed which is based on the use of search engines. A sample of about 200 personal home pages has been drawn by means of this procedure. Preliminary results of a content analysis for this sample, tapping into formal as well as substantive aspects, are presented and compared with previous findings. In addition, we present a second proposal related to the problem of systematic self-selection, which may arise when additional data are to be collected directly from the owners of the personal home pages.
Private Homepages stellen ein Forum zur Selbstdarstellung dar, dessen Möglichkeiten weit über diejenigen traditioneller Medien hinausgehen. Die Betreiber können sich der Vielfalt medialer Gestaltungsmittel des WorldWideWeb bedienen, um sich - in einem bisher kaum realisierbaren Umfang - einem räumlich und zahlenmäßig potentiell unbegrenzten Publikum präsentieren. Daraus ergeben sich zahlreiche Ansatzpunkte für die Erforschung von Techniken und Strategien der Selbstdarstellung, die innerhalb der Psychologie wie auch anderer Disziplinen in jüngster Zeit zu einem verstärkten Interesse an dieser spezifischen Form der Selbstpräsentation geführt haben. Ein bislang ungelöstes Problem der noch jungen Forschung zu privaten Homepages ist jedoch die Ziehung repräsentativer Stichproben. In dem Beitrag werden Probleme verschiedener Vorgehensweisen diskutiert, die u.E. in systematischen Verzerrungen der vorliegenden Samples gegenüber der Grundgesamtheit privater Homepages resultierten. Dem wird ein eigener, alternativer Ansatz auf der Basis von Suchmaschinen gegenübergestellt. Erste Ergebnisse einer Inhaltsanalyse formaler und inhaltlicher Merkmale einer Stichprobe von ca. 200 Homepages, die auf diese Weise gezogen wurde, werden vorgestellt und mit früheren Untersuchungen verglichen. Ein weiterer Lösungsvorschlag bezieht sich auf die Kontrolle von Effekten der selektiven Teilnahmebereitschaft, die dann entstehen können, wenn zusätzliche Daten direkt von den Betreibern der Homepages erhoben werden sollen.
Web survey bibliography - Germany (361)
- The Video-Enhanced Web Survey Data Quality and Cognitive Processing of Questions; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Gender-of-Interviewer Effects in a Video-Enhanced Web Survey: Results from a Randomized Field Experiment...; 2009; Fuchs, M.
- Mobility, Flexibility and Identity - How the use of mobile questionnaires improves the data quality...; 2009; Hellwig, O., Wirth, T.
- Evaluating two different mobile survey approaches: personal mobile panel research and ad-hoc mobile...; 2009; Friedrich-Freksa, M., Metzger, G.
- Coverage- und Nonresponse-Effekte bei Online-Bevölkerungsumfragen ; 2009; Bandilla, W., Kaczmirek, L., Blohm, M., Neubarth, W.
- Using the World-Wide Web to obtain large-scale word norms: 190,212 ratings on a set of 2,654 German...; 2009; Lahl, O., Goeritz, A., Pietrowsky, R., Rosenberg, J.
- TitleInternet-basierte Messung sozialer Erwünschtheit: Theoretische Grundlagen und experimentelle Untersuchung...; 2008; Kaufmann, E., Reips, U.-D.
- Sozialforschung im Internet: Methodologie und Praxis der Online-Befragung; 2008; Jackob, N., Schoen, H., Zerback, T. (eds.)
- Does speed in completing an online questionnaire have an influence on its reliability?; 2008; Montag, C., Reuter, M.
- Response Effects in Video-enhanced Web Surveys; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Using Internet Pages of Organisations as Data Source for Social Science Research; 2008; Baumgarten, B., Grauel, J.
- Representativeness in Online-Surveys Through Stratified Sample; 2008; Blasius, J.
- Individual payments as a longer-term incentive in online panels ; 2008; Goeritz, A., Wolff, H.-G., Goldstein, D. G.
- Communicative Channels, Cognitive Processes and Question Understanding: Results from a Randomized Field...; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- The effects of incentives in internet panels: a review; 2008; Goeritz, A.
- Phone respondents reported less mental health problems whereas mail interviewee gave higher physical...; 2008; Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Wetzel, R., Krügel, A., Brambosch, A.
- Mobile Market Research; 2008; Maxl, E.
- Online vs. Offline in Mobile Surveys; 2008; Neubarth, W., Maier, U.
- Gender-of-Interviewer Effects in Video-Enhanced Web Surveys. Results from a Randomized Field-Experiment...; 2008; Fuchs, M.
- Nicht-reaktive datenerhebung: Teinahmeverhalten bei befragungen mit paradaten evaluieren. [Non reactive...; 2007; Kaczmirek, L., Neubarth, W.
- Using Audio and Video Clips in Web Surveys — Feasibility and Impact on Data Quality; 2007; Fuchs, M., Funke, F.
- Sampling Bias: Face to face to Web; 2007; Bandilla, W., Blohm, M., Kaczmirek, L., Neubarth, W.
- First Experiences with Internet Surveying in the German Socio-Economic Panel; 2007; Wagner, G. G., Schupp, J., Schraepler, J.-P., Siegel, N.
- The anonymous elect. Market research through online access panels; 2006; Postoaca, A.
- Blocked versus randomized format of questionnaires. A confirmatory multigroup analysis; 2006; Sparfeldt, J. R., Schilling, S. R., Rost, D. H., Rost, D. H., Thiel, A.
- Physical or Virtual Presence of the Experimenter: Psychological Online-Experiments in Different Settings...; 2006; Ollesch, H., Heineken, E., Schulte, F. P.
- Cash Lotteries as Incentives in Online Panels; 2006; Goeritz, A.
- Putting a Questionnaire on the Web is not Enough # A Comparison of Online and Offline Surveys Conducted...; 2006; Faas, T., Schoen, H.
- Beyond response rates: Effects of different (Web-) survey implementation procedures on sample composition...; 2006; Bosnjak, M., Marcus, B., Schuetz, A., Lindner, S., Pilischenko, S.
- Controlling the Baseline Speed of Respondents: An Empirical Evaluation of Data Treatment Methods of...; 2005; Mayerl, J.
- Determinanten der Rücklaufquote in Online-Panels; 2005; Batanic, B., Moser, K.
- Standards in Online Surveys. Sources for Professional Codes of Conduct, Ethical Guidelines and Quality...; 2005; Kaczmirek, L., Schulze, N.
- Sampling procedure, questionnaire design, online implementation; 2005; Jackob, N., Arens, J., Zerback, T., Jowell, R., de Rouvray, C.
- When Methodology Interferes With Substance; 2005; Schoen, H., Faas, T.
- The Quality of Ego-Centered Network Data: A comparison of online versus offline data collection; 2005; Snijders, C., Matzat, U.
- Meta-Analyses on Contingent versus Unconditional Incentives; 2005; Goeritz, A.
- Using an access panel as a sampling frame for voluntary household surveys. Experiences from a pilot...; 2004; Korner, T., Nimmergut, A.
- Examining expert reviews as a pretest method; 2004; DeMaio, T., Landreth, A.
- Cooperation and Community on the Internet: Past Issues and Present Perspectives for theoretical-empirical...; 2004; Matzat, U.
- Response and Field Period Effects: The Effect of Time in Online Market Research and Consequences for...; 2004; Basso Larsen, R., Rathod, S.
- Online or Not Online? A Comparison of Offline and Online Surveys Conducted in the Context of 2002 German...; 2004; Faas, T.
- Changing from PAPI to CAPI: A Longitudinal Study Dealing with Mode-Effects in the German Socio-Economic...; 2004; Schraepler, J.-P., Schupp, J., Wagner, G. G
- Paper and pencil or online? Methodological Experiences from an employee survey; 2004; Poetschke, M.
- Survey Administration Effects? A Comparison of Web-Based and Traditional Written Self-Administered Surveys...; 2003; Bandilla, W., Bosnjak, M., Altdorfer, P.
- Bracketing effects in categorized survey questions and the measurement of economic quantities; 2002; Winter, J.
- WeXtor 2.5: Develop, manage, and visualize experimental designs and procedures; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Blumer, T., Neuhaus, C.
- Cognitive processes when answering online questionnaires; 2002; Fuchs, M.
- Online surveys with simple random samples for large populations; 2002; Kreuels, B.
- Sampling problems in research on personal Homepages; 2002; Marcus, B., Machilek, F., Schuetz, A., Kilian, C.
- Social desirable responding and age on the Internet: older participants in online studies show a higher...; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Stoeber, J., Hahn, A.