Dimensions of Internet Science

U.-D. Reips & M. Bosnjak (Eds., 2001)

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Content

Psychological Web Experiments and Web Questionnaire Studies

1. Merging Field and Institution: Running a Web Laboratory (Ulf-Dietrich Reips)
2. A Web-Based Program of Research on Decision Maling (Michael Birnbaum)
3. Online Personality Assessment (Tom Buchanan)
4. CGI versus JavaScript: A Web Experiment on the Reversed Hindsight Bias (Stefan Schwarz & Ulf-Dietrich Reips)
5. Online Replication of Evolutionary Psychological Evidence: Sex Differences in Sexual Jealousy in Imagined Scenarios of Mate's Sexual versus Emotional Infedelity (Martin Voracek, Stefan Stieger, & Alexander Gindl)

Studying Perception on the Net

6. Stimulus Delivery on the Web: What can be Presented when Calibration isn't Possible (John H. Krantz)
7. A Web-Experiment on Colour Harmony Priciples Applied to Computer User Interface Design (Bettina Laugwitz)
8. Games as Research Tools for Visual Perception over the Internet (Alexa I. Ruppertsberg, Galia Givaty, Hendricus A.H.C. Van Veen, & Heinrich Bülthoff)

Issues in Net-Based Survey Research

9. The Web Questionnaire Challenge to Survey Methodologists (Don A. Dillmann, & Dennis K. Bowker)
10. Improving Survey Research on the World-Wide Web Using the Randomized Response Technique (Jochen Musch, Arndt Bröder, & Karl Christoph Klauer)
11. Participation in Non-Restricted Web Surveys: A Typology and Explanatory Model for Item Non-Response (Michael Bosnjak)
12. Financial Incentives, Personal Information, and Drop Out in Online Studies (Andrea Frick, Marie-Therese Bächtiger, & Ulf-Dietrich Reips)
13. Drop-Out Analysis: Effects of the Survey Design (Frank Knapp & Martin Heidingsfelder)
14. E-Mail Surveys: Non-Response Figures Reflected (Martin Welker)

Online Communication Research and E-Commerce

15. How Do Web Communicators Work? (Patrick Rössler, Nicole Klövekorn, & Tania Rebuzzi)
16. The Computer as a Medium for Media Integration: Experiences and Selected Findings of an International Online-Offline Delphi Survey (Klaus Beck & Alexander Raulfs)
17. Electronic Commerce: The New Challenge in Retailing (Inga D. Schmidt, Birgit Stark, & Thomas Döbler)

Knowledge Acquisition and Learning with the Net

18. Knowledge Acquisition, Navigation and Exe Movement from Text and Hypertext (Anja Naumann, Jaqueline Wniek, & Josef F. Krems)
19. When the Tutor is Socially Present or Not. Evaluation of a Teletutor and Learning in a Virtual Seminar (Manuela Paechter, Karin Schweizer, & Bernd Weidenmann)
20. Attachment to a virtual Seminar: The Role of Experiences, Motives, and Fulfillment of Expectations (Sonja Utz & Kai Sassenberg)

Text from the back cover

Internet Science is a new and exciting interdisciplinary field. Its purpose is the conduct of empirical studies which examine the internet a sboth an instrument for, and an object of, scientific investigation.

Internet scientists are using the Internet to conduct research in their mother disciplines using the new medium. Some are also looking at the Internet itself, and at the social-technological phenomena happening in ist webs. And some look at us, humans, and how we act and react in the presence of the phenomenon called "the Net".

This book is the first comprehensive collection of contributions to Internet Science appearing in English, written by highly respected experts from seven different countries. The beginning reader will find a first-class introduction to Internet Science, with exciting empirical results, useful advice and detailed examples to follow. Experts will benefit from receiving an up-to-date overview of the field, and from descriptions of new techniques and many references to interesting sources. Dimensions of Internet Science is unique in its wide and substantial coverage of the new and rapidly developing field.

Typical readers for whom the book ist written include: The Internet user who is interested in knowing more about social and behavioral implications of the net technology, and how the Internet is used for exciting new scientific endeavors; online researchers; Web communicators; social scientists; marketing and e-commerce professionals; people working in overlapping areas of the communication and media community; collge professors and students in business, the behavioral scinces, the media, and the social sciences.