Thanks a lot! Perhaps this article contain some further references. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Fred Stutzman Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 4:30 PM To: Monica Barratt Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Sampling and recruiting in Social Networking Services The only article I've seen out of a methods journal that deals with this directly appeared recently: Ferguson, D. A. (2009). Name-Based Cluster Sampling. Sociological Methods & Research, 37(4), 590-598. Drawing on memory, most of the within-SNS sampling I've seen, for small sample studies, uses either snowball or invitation sampling. I've also seen use of advertising (both through paid placement and ad hoc methods - groups, reposting of solicitation). For large-scale samples, I've seen both randomized and targeted crawling of a SNS. Mike Thelwall's papers on Myspace provide a good example. Notably, most of the medium-sized samples involve extra-SNS solicitation (generally some sort of list-based sample). This is mainly used for survey research. On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Monica Barratt wrote:
Did you ever get a response to this? I'm also interested.
I'm writing up my experiences of recruiting for research using online bulletin board / forums. I also used Facebook but not extensively. I imagine there would be some interesting methodological and ethical questions to consider through these modes of recruitment.
Monica
2009/2/6 Alexander Semenov <semenoffalex@googlemail.com>
Hello everybody, I'm interested in any information about sampling and recruiting people in SNS to participate in any kind of online surveys, panels, questionnaires etc. After some googling I've found only several blog postings, like this ones:
http://kurtisrandom.blogspot.com/2007/11/sampling-massive-online-social-netw orks.html
http://vannevarvision.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/review-analysis-of-topologica l-characteristics-of-huge-online-social-networking-services/
http://researchreinvented.blogspot.com/2007/12/recruiting-using-social-netwo rks.html
But I wonder whether there are any "serious" articles on the question? Thanks in advance. Alexander Semenov. _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http:// aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
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