[Air-L] Sampling facebook pages

[Ulf-Dietrich Reips]

Dear Nagi,
you may want to check our following paper for some advice on doing 
Facebook research.

Reips, U.-D., & Buffardi, L. (2012). Studying migrants with the help 
of the Internet: Methods from psychology. Journal of Ethnic and 
Migration Studies, 38(9), 1405-1424. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2012.698208
Available from 
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/iscience/reips/pubs/papers/2012ReipsBuffardi_JEMS.pdf

Hope it is of help.
Best wishes
Ulf

At 12:22 Uhr +0300 14.09.2014, Noha Nagi 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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