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Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples

Amsterdam: ESOMAR (2021), 22 pp.

"This set of questions offers a framework for buyers to use when evaluating the offerings of different online sample providers. It updates and replaces the 2012 ESOMAR publication, 28 Questions to Help Buyers of Online Samples. The questions identify the key issues to consider, introduce consistent ... terminology, explain why each question should be asked, and note the issues buyers should expect to be covered in an answer. The intended use of these questions is that they form a basis for a conversation between buyer and sample provider, rather than simply being used as a checklist to compare offerings across providers. The questions do not cover B2B samples, nor do they attempt to cover specific requirements for different types of research such as pricing, new product development, ad testing etc. When online access panels were first introduced in the 1990s, the model was relatively simple: a buyer provided sampling specifications to a panel owner who drew a sample (from that panel). Over the intervening 25 years, online sample selection has changed in two fundamental ways. First, buyers can now access a a broader set of sources that now includes participants in loyalty programmes and rewards communities within “Get Paid To’ sites, customer lists, intercepts from offer walls, affiliate networks, social media, and other platforms, as well as traditional panels that may or may not be owned by the provider. Second, buyers have the option to access these sources directly via self-service tools, rather than relying on a sample provider to generate the sample on their behalf. There have been other important changes as well. Online research has become truly global and mobile devices have become a common data collection platform. The use of online samples has broadened beyond surveys to include qual/quant applications, communities, passive data collection, and so on. Concerns about privacy and data protection have led to a much-changed regulatory environment that imposes new requirements on both sample buyers and sample providers. Quality assurance techniques have become increasingly sophisticated. As a consequence, the number of issues that buyers must consider when choosing a sample provider has increased substantially." (Purpose and scope, page 3) more

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Netnography Unlimited: Understanding Technoculture Using Qualitative Social Media Research

Robert V. Kozinets, Rossella Gambetti (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xv, 325 pp.

"Shaped by academic fields, industries, national contexts, technologies and platforms, and languages and cultures, for over two decades netnography has impacted the research practices of scholars around the world. In this volume, thirty-two researchers present nineteen chapters that examine how they ... more

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The Measurement of Trust in Communication Research, Part 2

Paola Pascual-Ferrá

Communication Research Trends, volume 40, issue 1 (2021), pp. 4-36

"In this review of the literature I have attempted to show how researchers in different areas of communication have conceptualized and operationalized trust and trust-related concepts. Trust has been associated most with the concept of credibility, but other words that have been used to operationali ... ze it include believability, accuracy, honesty, truthfulness, trustworthiness, sincerity, competence, expertise, reliability, and goodwill, to name some. The concept of trust, just as credibility, is multi-dimensional, and it seems to depend on the context, the person, and the task that is evaluated, as one may not necessarily trust another with a personal secret but may trust that person to complete a work-related task well. As might have become evident to the reader, our discipline's interest in measuring trust has been mostly utilitarian: trust as a means to an end (e.g., persuasion, credibility, and effectiveness of the communicator, to name some). While not all of the trust-related research in communication has been self-serving, it has focused mostly on the benefits that communicators can derive from growing others' trust in them, and less on the benefit that the act of trusting may have on others beyond the communicator, or other possible outcomes stemming from trust. One of the few exceptions has been in the instructional communication literature, where measures of trust have been used to study levels of student satisfaction, development and learning; interpersonal communication, where measures of trust have been used to study satisfaction in relationships between friends and romantic partners; and health communication, where communicating trust in the patient-provider interaction can increase the patient's self-awareness and sense of well-being. The mostly transactional and utilitarian view of trust that has dominated so far is perhaps a reflection of the increased professionalization of the discipline, the need for practical applications within the business setting and the cultures that sustain them and are in turn sustained by them. It would be interesting for future research to consider trust from the perspective of the person who is doing the trusting what impact does trust have on them beyond being persuaded and returning as consumers of information and products? It would be interesting for future research to approach the study of trust from that perspective as well as from non-traditional (read non-Western/Anglo-Saxon) socioeconomic and cultural perspectives." (Conclusion, page 21) more

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Media and Digital Technologies for Mixed Methods Research in Public Health Emergencies Such as COVID-19: Lessons Learned from Using Interactive Radio–SMS for Social Research in Somalia

Johanna Riha, Claudia Abreu Lopes, Naima Abdi Ibrahim, Sharath Srinivasan

Journal of Mixed Methods Research, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 304-326

"Radio shows which invite audience participation via short message service (SMS)—interactive radio–SMS—can be designed as a mixed methods approach for applied social research during COVID-19 and other crises in low and middle income countries. In the aftermath of a cholera outbreak in Somalia, ... more

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ESOMAR/GRBN Guideline for Researchers and Clients Involved in Primary Data Collection

ESOMAR (2021), 18 pp.

"This guideline describes the ethical responsibilities of researchers, regardless of the type of organisation in which they work, when engaged in primary data collection, that is, when collecting data from or about a data subject for the purpose of research. It includes quantitative and qualitative ... more

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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
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Kristoffer Bjärkefur, Luiza Cardoso de Andrade, Benjamin Daniels, Maria Jones

Washington, DC: World Bank (2021), xviii, 209 pp.

"Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. An empirical revolution has changed the face of development research over the last decade. Increasingly, researchers are ... more

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Medienanalyse: Ein kritisches Lehrbuch

Sabine Schiffer

Frankfurt am Main: Westend (2021), 300 pp.

"Sabine Schiffer legt nun ein Buch vor, das sowohl theoretische Grundlagen liefert als auch an etlichen Beispielen aufzeigt, wie Medienanalyse konkret aussieht. Welche Möglichkeiten gibt es, innerhalb der täglichen Informationsflut den Überblick darüber zu behalten, was echt und wahr und was fal ... more

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Narrativas y públicos en los medios: Enfoques para un periodismo de cambio

Franklin Cornejo Urbina (ed.)

Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 88 pp.

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The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

Daria Gritsenko, Mariëlle Wijermars, Michail Vjaceslavovic Kopotev (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiv, 612 pp.

"This open access handbook presents a multidisciplinary and multifaceted perspective on how the 'digital' is simultaneously changing Russia and the research methods scholars use to study Russia. It provides a critical update on how Russian society, politics, economy, and culture are reconfigured in ... more

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A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies

Klaus Bruhn Jensen (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2021), xiii, 512 pp.

"Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition integrates perspectives from the social sciences and the humanities, focusing on methodology as a strategic level of analysis that joins practical applications with theoretical issues. The Handbook comprises three main elements: historical accounts ... more

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Transcribing Oral History

Teresa Bergen

New York: Routledge (2020), xix, 207 pp.

"Transcribing Oral History offers a comprehensive guide to the transcription of qualitative interviews, an often richly debated practice within oral history. Beginning with an introduction to the field and an overview of the many disciplines that conduct and transcribe interviews, the book goes on t ... more

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Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic

Deborah Lupton (ed.)

[author] (2020), 39 pp.

"This document was initially directed at ways for how to turn fieldwork that was initially planned as using face-to-face methods into a more ‘hands-off’ mode. However, people have added useful material about ‘born digital’ research (content already generated on the internet by online interac ... more

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The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video
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Phillip Vannini (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 359 pp.

"Comprised of 31 chapters authored by some of the world's leading experts in their respective fields, the book's contributors synthesize existing literature, introduce the historical and conceptual dimensions of the field, illustrate innovative methodologies and techniques, survey traditional and ne ... more

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Going Digital: Web Data Collection Using Twitter as an Example

Nicole Schwitter, Ulf Liebe

Oxford: Oxfam (2020), 30 pp.

"These guidelines are published under the Going Digital series where we explore and share our learning in using new digital technologies in evaluation and research. In this fifth instalment of Going Digital, another form of digital data is explored: web data. The paper discusses how web data, in par ... more

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Remote Surveying in a Pandemic: Handbook

Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa) (2020), 43 pp.

"As part of IPA’s response to COVID-19, many existing and new data collections have shifted to remote data collection modes including computer-assisted telephone interviews (CATI), interactive voice response (IVR) and SMS surveys. This transition has required new protocols, new tools, and new work ... more

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Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse als zentrales Erhebungsverfahren für die Erforschung politischer Kommunikation

Patrick Rössler

In: Handbuch Politische Kommunikation

Isabelle Borucki, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw, Stefan Marschall, Thomas Zerback (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), 21 pp.

"Die standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse stellt ein für die Forschung zur politischen Kommunikation unverzichtbares methodisches Instrumentarium bereit, um die ausufernde Menge an politisch relevanten Mitteilungen im öffentlichen und halböffentlichen Diskursraum systematisch zu beschreiben. Die gegen� ... more

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Transitioning to CATI: Checklists and Resources

Saurabh Bhajibhakare, Ambika Chopra, Putul Gupta, Mustufa Patel

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) (2020), 13 pp.

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Indigenous Research Methodologies

Bagele Chilisa

Los Angeles et al.: Sage, 2nd ed. (2020), xxiv, 368 pp.

"Author Bagele Chilisa updates her groundbreaking textbook to give a new generation of scholars a crucial foundation in indigenous methods, methodologies, and epistemologies. Addressing the increasing emphasis in the classroom and in the field to sensitize researchers and students to diverse perspec ... more

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Partizipative Forschung: Ein Forschungsansatz für Gesundheit und seine Methoden

Susanne Hartung, Petra Wihofszky, Michael T. Wright (eds.)

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xii, 262 pp.

"Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband bietet eine gute Grundlage für den Einstieg in die partizipative Forschung allgemein und in die Partizipative Gesundheitsforschung. Es werden Forschungsansätze und Methoden für die Erhebung und Auswertung in partizipativen Forschungsprozessen vorgestellt und anhand ... more

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Small Sample Size Solutions: A Guide for Applied Researchers and Practitioners

Rens van de Schoot, Milica Miočević (eds.)

[Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar]: Routledge (2020), 284 pp.

"This unique book provides guidelines and tools for implementing solutions to issues that arise in small sample research. Each chapter illustrates statistical methods that allow researchers to apply the optimal statistical model for their research question when the sample is too small. This essentia ... more

Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook Key Guides

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video Deep Insights

Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
Key Guides

The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video
Deep Insights