Online Social Sciences

B. Batinic, U.-D. Reips & M. Bosnjak (Eds., 2002)

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Content

1. Web Surveys - An Appropriate Mode of Data Collection for the Social Sciences? (Wolfgang Bandilla)
2. Internet Surveys and Data Quality: A Review (Tracy L. Tuten, David J. Urban, & Michael Bosnjak)
3. Online Panels (Anja S. Göritz, Nicole Reinhold, & Bernad Batinic)
4. Assessing Internet Questionnaires: The Online Pretest Lab (Lorenz Gräf)
5. Context Effects in Web Surveys (Ulf-Dietrich Reips)
6. Understanding the Willingsness to Participate in Online Surveys - The Case of E-Mail Questionnaires (Michael Bosnjak & Bernad Batinic)
7. Generabilizability Issues in Internet-Based Survey Research: Implications for the Internet Addiction Controversy (Viktor Brenner)
8. Personality Assessment via Internet: Comparing Online and Paper-Pencil Questionnaires (Guido Hertel, Sonja Naumann, Udo Konradt, & Bernad Batinic)
9. Comparison of Psychologists' Self Image and Their Image in the Internet and in Print (Ira Rietz & Svenjy Wahl)
10. Ability and Achievement Testing on the World Wide Web (Oliver Wilhelm & Patrick E. McKnight)
11. Psychological Experimenting on the World Wide Web: Investigating Content Effects in Syllogistic Reasoning (Jochen Musch & Karl Christoph Klauer)
12. Online Research and Anonymity (Kai Sassenberg & Stefan Kreutz)
13. Theory and Techniques of Conducting Web Experiments (Ulf-Dietrich Reips)
14. Contact Measurement in the WWW (Andreas Werner)
15. Lurkers in Mailing Lists (Christian Stegbauer & Alexander Rausch)
16. Forms of Research in MUDs (Sonja Utz)
17. Content Analysis in Online Communication: A Challenge for Traditional Methodology (Patrick Rössler)
18. " Let a Thousand Proposals Bloom" - Mailing Lists as Research Sources (Jeanette Hofmann)
19. Studying Online Love and Cyber Romance (Nicola Döring)
20. Artificial Dialogues - Dialogue and Interview Bots for the World Wide Web (Dietmar Janetzko)
21. World Wide Web Use at a German University - Computers, Sex, and Imported Names. Results of a Logfile Analysis (Thomas Berker)
22. Academic Communication and Internet Discussion Groups: What Kinds of Benefits for Whom? (Uwe Matzat)
23. Empirically Quantifying Unit-Nonresponse-Errors in Online Surveys and Suggestions for Computational Correction Methods (Gerhard Lukawetz)

Text from the back cover

Ever more researchers in the social sciences and market research are interested in using the benefits of the internet to obtain data, and as this bool shows online studies can address many questions that are asked by social scientists, This unique test provides comprehensive and up-to-date information, from the basics upwards, about online research methods, technical approaches to data collection, and the quality and limitations of data collected online. Included among the twenty-three chapters, written by leading online researchers from Europe and North America, are ones investigating the implementation of both reactive and non-reactive methods of data collection. The studies reported utilize Web-based questionnaires, Web experiments, observations of virtual worlds, case narrations, content analyses, and analysis of mailing lists and other log data. In addition to featuring various fields of research in the online environment and reporting the results of such studies, this book also seeks to bridge a gap between Internet scientists in Europe and the US. In the past, researchers have tended to work on similar projects without collaboration: this book represents a joint effort among these researchers.