[Air-L] Sampling and recruiting in Social Networking Services

[Monica Barratt]

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 at 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-networks.html
>
> http://vannevarvision.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/review-analysis-of-topological-characteristics-of-huge-online-social-networking-services/
>
> http://researchreinvented.blogspot.com/2007/12/recruiting-using-social-networks.html
> But I wonder whether there are any "serious" articles on the question?
> Thanks in advance.
> Alexander Semenov.
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