[Air-L] Sampling facebook pages

[Noha Nagi]

Hello Annette,

Thanks for your recommendations.

To make it more clear.... I selected purposefully four facebook pages, but
I don't want to analyze all their content (posts and comments). I am using
a quantitative method mainly.
I will analyze content qualitatively & quantitatively and then measure the
level of political toleration in discussions within the pages as an
estimate for the political toleration within a society.

Will this change your reply?

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Annette Markham <amarkham at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Noha,
>
> Not sure what you’ve already done to establish the most appropriate
> sampling plan, but off the top of my head systematic is not part of random
> sampling.  You’re probably doing a purposeful sampling. Are you taking a
> qualitative or quantitative orientation to the analysis? That makes a
> difference in how you’ll describe (and conduct) the sample.
>
> As for further reading:  Because these two books are sitting open on my
> desk, I can recommend these basic introductions to sampling concepts and
> terms:
>
> Sarah Tracy’s textbook on qualitative research methods:  covers different
> qualitative sampling strategies (in the chapter on interviewing).
> http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002631.html
> I’ve shared a screenshot of her summary of types of sampling here, but the
> larger section is much more detailed:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/6jmm7th5mbl0jfz/tracysamplingchart.png?dl=0
>
> Donald Treadwell’s textbook on introducing Communication Research:
> presents positivist and interpretivist notions of sampling.
> http://www.sagepub.com/textbooks/Book237564
> You can see a copy of Treadwell's chapter on sampling here:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0320vm66m0gec2w/Treadwellch8Sampling.pdf?dl=0
>
> and here’s a nice piece that cuts deeper into the ideas and complexity of
> qualitative sampling:
>
> http://corcom300-s12-lay.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/ARTICLE_Sampling_Qualitative.pdf
>
>  Best,
>
> annette
>
> On 14 Sep 2014, at 11:22, Noha Nagi <noha.a.nagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Professors and colleagues,
>
> I was wondering if there are different sampling methods for internet data
> than the already known sampling methods.
>
> For my research, I was thinking of taking a *systematic random sample* from
> facebook posts on a each of four facebook pages. I have no information
> about the heterogeneity between the different pages according to any
> variable (gender, political affiliation...) so I thought it is not
> stratified nor cluster, and it will be more likely a systematic sample.
>
>
>    Is systematic sampling* logically right*?
>
>    Did any one come across *other sampling techniques for facebook pages*?
> or internet data in general?
>
>    Can anyone suggest *a book to read about this*?
>
>
> I would love to hear any advice from you.
>
>
> Yours,
> *Noha A.Nagi*
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*Noha A.Nagi*