[Air-L] Facebook and Twitter user recruitment?

Tue Jul 19 23:13:57 PDT 2016

How about subject pools run by Qualtrics, Survey Monkey, etc? We once asked
for a quote for an online survey from their subject pools. We didn't end up
using those though.
I'd be curious to know what makes your MechTurk participants disinterested
in the study? 90 minutes is a long time though. In user-testing studies, 90
minutes participation is often compensated with more than $25. It may be
worthwhile considering distributing the payment so that there's a draw to
the follow-up sequence too.

Dr. Tanja Aitamurto
Brown Fellow, postdoctoral
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation <http://brown.stanford.edu/>
School of Engineering
Stanford
www.tanjaaitamurto.com <http://brokenfence.flavors.me/>
~ examining collective intelligence in journalism, governance and design ~

On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Galen Panger <gpanger at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do others know, perchance, of any subject pools that are open to Internet
> researchers, where a lowly researcher such as me might be able to list a
> study? I'm working with my own university's subject pool, but it's summer
> and they don't anticipate I'll recruit the number of subjects I need. It's
> going well with this pool so far, but I probably won't hit my numbers
> there. Looking for any other possible sources.
>
> Anyway, thanks to Fabio, Scott and to a couple of others who responded
> off-list. Fabio, I'll try out the Facebook lead ads!
>
> Sincerely,
> Galen
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:22 PM, Fabio Giglietto <
> fabio.giglietto at uniurb.it
> > wrote:
>
> > Hi Galen,
> > have you also tried Facebook lead ads (
> > https://www.facebook.com/business/a/lead-ads)?
> >
> > Best, Fabio Giglietto
> >
> > Il sab 16 lug 2016, 3:36 AM Galen Panger <gpanger at gmail.com> ha scritto:
> >
> >> Thanks -- to be clear, I'm not looking for my study to be blasted out,
> at
> >> least not without talking first about (1) what the population looks like
> >> and (2) working on the recruitment language. I shared the URLs in case
> >> people wanted to get a better sense of what the study/ies entail. Thanks
> >> for any and all ideas/leads/advice, though!
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Scott MacLeod <scott at scottmacleod.com>
> >> 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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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
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