Editing Designing Internet Research (Winter 2020) (section)

==== Part I: 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. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61598407/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''
* 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. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61598735/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''
* 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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2005.tb00248.x Free online]]''
* 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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065782 Free online]]''
* 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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0123483 Free online]]''
: 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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1145/3097286.3097313 Available through UW libraries]]''

'''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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-005-8081-8 Available through UW Libraries]]''
* 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. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61598415/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''
* 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. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61598409/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''
* 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. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61598411/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''
* 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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1093/jssam/smu015 Available through UW libraries]]'
* 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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1083-6101.2000.tb00112.x Free online]]''
* 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. ''[[https://canvas.uw.edu/files/61598738/download?download_frd=1 Available in Canvas]]''

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. ''[[https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.50.1.537 Available through UW libraries]]''

Tools for doing mobile surveys:

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