[Air-L] Facebook and Twitter user recruitment?

[Scott MacLeod]

Hi Galen and AoIR,

Yes, I've taken down your seeking sample request from
http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/minutes-for-wuass-july-9-2016-monthly.html.


I doubt that you'll get more than a few interested people from WUaS's
monthly business meeting email list, if that, but if you want to get
hundreds of people in your study, even a few could help. I thought
letting Universtians know might increase your sample size, if only a
little. ~90% of the people on the list are in the US I'd guess.

How many people are on the the AoIR list? I'm interested for future
WUaS studies.

In an online study I did of online "senses of place" in 2004 at the
University of Edinburgh, I reached out directly to individuals who had
signed the National Trust for Scotland's St. Kilda guest book for
visiting online this island archipelago off the Hebrides. I got a small
sample from this. Reaching out individually to Twitter and FB users
might be an useful approach, and possibly via email over text messaging.
I'm happy to share my St. Kilda paper with you or others on the AoIR
list, if that would be helpful.

AoIR, as academic researchers, how best to build online samples
numbering in the hundreds or even around 1000+ for  statistically
significant N sample sizes for social media studies - and in multiple
languages (re World University and School's eventual sample
populations)? Shall we start a GDoc syllabus for this?

Getting statistically significant online sample sizes of respondents
isn't easy, I found as long ago as 2003-2004 in my St. Kilda in Scotland
- I'm interested in learning further about how you proceed Galen, and
what other AoIRers have done.

- Scott



On 7/15/16 6:30 PM, Scott MacLeod wrote:
> Hi Galen and AoIR,
> 
> I just shared your request, Galen, as a Minute as part of World
> University and School's open monthly business meeting process, as you'll
> see here -
> http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2016/07/minutes-for-wuass-july-9-2016-monthly.html
> - along with some of WUaS's rationales for this, which include as you'll
> see: "In seeking to become the online Harvards of the Internet in all
> ~204 countries main languages (accrediting for free CC MIT OCW in 7
> languages and CC Yale OYC BS/BA, Ph.D., law and M.D. degrees, as well as
> I.B. diplomas), this is also a model for how WUaS (and if I become an
> assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab too) may further seek social
> science samples for research in both courses and in various languages."
> 
> Thanks for this interesting and rigorous online social media study.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Scott
> 
> https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/15/16 2:12 PM, Galen Panger wrote:
>> Hi all, for my dissertation I'm recruiting separate samples of Twitter and
>> Facebook users for a multi-part study (see http://facebookstudy.berkeley.edu
>> and http://twitterstudy.berkeley.edu). I'm having some luck with Twitter
>> ads, and with my university's subject pool for Facebook, but am wondering
>> if folks here might have ideas for recruiting more participants to help put
>> me over the top (I'm hoping to end with usable samples of over 300 each).
>>
>> I'm paying about $25 (plus a $500 Apple Gift Card drawing) for a total time
>> of around 90 minutes, with the catch that the second part of the study
>> involves downloading and using an app, which is a step that results in a
>> fair amount of drop-off (despite my follow-up efforts, which only help on
>> the margin). I've tried Mechanical Turk but there's too much drop-off.
>> Craigslist also appears to be taking down anything that's not a
>> face-to-face transaction, and my study is entirely online/Qualtrics/app.
>> Facebook ads haven't worked at all for recruitment for me.
>>
>> Anyway -- if your university subject pool is open to outsiders, or if you
>> have a tip that's worked for you in the past, I'm all ears for any ideas!
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Galen
>>
> 

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