Hi Galen and AoIR, Yes, I've taken down your seeking sample request from http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/minutes-for-wuass-july-.... I doubt that you'll get more than a few interested people from WUaS's monthly business meeting email list, if that, but if you want to get hundreds of people in your study, even a few could help. I thought letting Universtians know might increase your sample size, if only a little. ~90% of the people on the list are in the US I'd guess. How many people are on the the AoIR list? I'm interested for future WUaS studies. In an online study I did of online "senses of place" in 2004 at the University of Edinburgh, I reached out directly to individuals who had signed the National Trust for Scotland's St. Kilda guest book for visiting online this island archipelago off the Hebrides. I got a small sample from this. Reaching out individually to Twitter and FB users might be an useful approach, and possibly via email over text messaging. I'm happy to share my St. Kilda paper with you or others on the AoIR list, if that would be helpful. AoIR, as academic researchers, how best to build online samples numbering in the hundreds or even around 1000+ for statistically significant N sample sizes for social media studies - and in multiple languages (re World University and School's eventual sample populations)? Shall we start a GDoc syllabus for this? Getting statistically significant online sample sizes of respondents isn't easy, I found as long ago as 2003-2004 in my St. Kilda in Scotland - I'm interested in learning further about how you proceed Galen, and what other AoIRers have done. - Scott On 7/15/16 6:30 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:

Hi Galen and AoIR,

I just shared your request, Galen, as a Minute as part of World University and School's open monthly business meeting process, as you'll see here - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/minutes-for-wuass-july-... - along with some of WUaS's rationales for this, which include as you'll see: "In seeking to become the online Harvards of the Internet in all ~204 countries main languages (accrediting for free CC MIT OCW in 7 languages and CC Yale OYC BS/BA, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as I.B. diplomas), this is also a model for how WUaS (and if I become an assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab too) may further seek social science samples for research in both courses and in various languages."

Thanks for this interesting and rigorous online social media study.

Sincerely, Scott

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On 7/15/16 2:12 PM, Galen Panger wrote:

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Hi all, for my dissertation I'm recruiting separate samples of Twitter and Facebook users for a multi-part study (see http://facebookstudy.berkeley.edu and http://twitterstudy.berkeley.edu). I'm having some luck with Twitter ads, and with my university's subject pool for Facebook, but am wondering if folks here might have ideas for recruiting more participants to help put me over the top (I'm hoping to end with usable samples of over 300 each).

I'm paying about $25 (plus a $500 Apple Gift Card drawing) for a total time of around 90 minutes, with the catch that the second part of the study involves downloading and using an app, which is a step that results in a fair amount of drop-off (despite my follow-up efforts, which only help on the margin). I've tried Mechanical Turk but there's too much drop-off. Craigslist also appears to be taking down anything that's not a face-to-face transaction, and my study is entirely online/Qualtrics/app. Facebook ads haven't worked at all for recruitment for me.

Anyway -- if your university subject pool is open to outsiders, or if you have a tip that's worked for you in the past, I'm all ears for any ideas!

Sincerely, Galen

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