Editing Designing Internet Research (Spring 2022) (section)

=== Monday May 16: Surveys ===


'''Required Readings:'''

* Fricker, Jr., Ronald D., and Katja Lozar Manfreda. 2017. “Sampling Methods for Online Surveys.” In The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, edited by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, and Grant Blank, 2 edition, 162–83. London, UK: SAGE. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060249/download?download_frd=1}}
* Walejko, Gina. 2009. “Online Survey: Instant Publication, Instant Mistake, All of the Above.” In Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have, edited by Eszter Hargittai, 101–21. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060253/download?download_frd=1}}
* Konstan, Joseph A., B. R. Simon Rosser, Michael W. Ross, Jeffrey Stanton, and Weston M. Edwards. 2005. “The Story of Subject Naught: A Cautionary but Optimistic Tale of Internet Survey Research.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 10 (2): 00–00. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00248.x. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00248.x}}
* Hill, Benjamin Mako, and Aaron Shaw. 2013. “The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation.” PLoS ONE 8 (6): e65782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065782. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065782}}
* Salganik, Matthew J., and Karen E. C. Levy. 2015. “Wiki Surveys: Open and Quantifiable Social Data Collection.” PLOS ONE 10 (5): e0123483. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123483. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123483}}
: Note: [http://www.technologyreview.com/view/531696/inspired-by-wikipedia-social-scientists-create-a-revolution-in-online-surveys/ This journalistic account of the research] may also be useful.
* Alperin, Juan Pablo, Erik Warren Hanson, Kenneth Shores, and Stefanie Haustein. 2017. “Twitter Bot Surveys: A Discrete Choice Experiment to Increase Response Rates.” In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Social Media & Society, 1–4. #SMSociety17. Toronto, ON, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097313. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097313}}

'''Optional Readings:'''

* Van Selm, Martine, and Nicholas W. Jankowski. 2006. “Conducting Online Surveys.” Quality and Quantity 40 (3): 435–56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-005-8081-8. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-005-8081-8}}
* Vehovar, Vasja, and Katja Lozar Manfreda. 2017. “Overview: Online Surveys.” In The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, edited by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, and Grant Blank, 2 edition, 143–61. London, UK: SAGE. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060233/download?download_frd=1}}
* Kaczmirek, Lars. 2017. “Online Survey Software.” In The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, edited by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, and Grant Blank, 2 edition, 203–19. London, UK: SAGE. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060248/download?download_frd=1}}
* Toepoel, Vera. 2017. “Online Survey Design.” In The SAGE Handbook of Online Research Methods, edited by Nigel G. Fielding, Raymond M. Lee, and Grant Blank, 2 edition, 184–202. London, UK: SAGE. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060252/download?download_frd=1}}
* Mavletova, Aigul, and Mick P. Couper. 2014. “Mobile Web Survey Design: Scrolling versus Paging, SMS versus E-Mail Invitations.” Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology 2 (4): 498–518. https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smu015. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smu015}}
* Yun, Gi Woong, and Craig W. Trumbo. 2000. “Comparative Response to a Survey Executed by Post, e-Mail, & Web Form.” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 6 (1): 0–0. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2000.tb00112.x. {{avail-free|https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2000.tb00112.x}}
* Hargittai, Eszter, and Chris Karr. 2009. “WAT R U DOIN? Studying the Thumb Generation Using Text Messaging.” In Research Confidential: Solutions to Problems Most Social Scientists Pretend They Never Have, edited by Eszter Hargittai, 192–216. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. {{avail-canvas|1=https://canvas.uw.edu/files/90060251/download?download_frd=1}}

If you don't have a background in survey design, these two have been recommended by our guest speaker as good basic things to read:

* Krosnick, Jon A. 1999. “Maximizing Measurement Quality: Principles of Good Questionnaire Design.” In Measures of Political Attitudes, edited by John P. Robinson, Phillip R. Shaver, and Lawrence S. Wrightsman. New York: Academic Press.
* Krosnick, Jon A. 1999. “Survey Research.” Annual Review of Psychology 50 (1): 537–67. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.537. {{avail-uw|https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.537}}

Tools for doing mobile surveys:

* [https://www.rapidsms.org/ RapidSMS]
* [https://www.twilio.com/ Twilio]