R: [Air-l] on the web, research work proves ephemeral

[Denise N. Rall]

Regarding methods for online research:

Ulf-Dietrich Reips is too modest to recommend his own
edited volume: Batinic, Reips & Bosnjak, Eds. (2002).
Online Social Sciences. Seattle: Hogrefe & Huber.

This is from his former email to AoIR:

I would like to inform you that we published a book
with the title "Online Social Sciences" (Batinic,
Reips, & Bosnjak,  Eds.). It contains 24 chapters
about the possibilities to use the internet for data
collection (e.g. online panels, personality assessment
via internet, psychological experimenting on the world
wide web, forms of research in MUDs, dialogue and
interview-bots for the www). At the end of this email
you`ll find a general introduction. 
             
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 book shows
online studies can address many questions that are
asked by social scientists. This unique text 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-four 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. Online 
research from an international perspective: the latest
developments and techniques for social scientists and
others interested in exploiting the opportunities the
Internet provides.

http://www.hhpub.com/books/isbn/0-88937-257-8.html

Cheers, Denise



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"The distance between here and there is growing; and getting even larger as we speak" (S. S. Hall)
Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of EnvironSciMgmt, Southern Cross Uni,  Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344
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