Subject description
Internet research:
- Concepts of Internet mediated research.
- Reactive and non-reactive data collection methods.
- Ethical issues in internet mediated research.
Web surveys:
- Typology of web surveys.
- Software tools for web surveys.
- Probability and nonprobability samples in web surveys.
- Statistical inference on the basis of nonprobability samples.
- Web survey errors (sampling frame, measurement, nonresponse…).
- Web questionnaire design for various devices.
- Mixed-mode surveys.
- Web surveys and big data.
Selected topics in Internet research:
- Technical measurement (log files, paradata, measuring movement and location, social media data …) and big data.
- Introduction to online qualitative methods.
- Combining web-based quantitative and qualitative methods (mixed-methods).
- Human-computer interaction and web-based data collection.
The subject is taught in programs
Objectives and competences
- Modern trends in social science statistics, which integrate the Internet as one of the main tools for data collection, analysis and dissemination of data.
- Knowledge on a full spectrum of existing methods.
- Competences for implementation of research using the Internet.
- Introduction into state-of-the-art research issues in the field.
Teaching and learning methods
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Lectures.
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Seminar papers based on literature review and student PhD research projects.
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Consultations.
Expected study results
Knowledge and understanding:
- familiarity with the structure, organization and types on data on the WWW,
- familiarity with the methods of data collection using the Internet,
- familiarity with software tools for data collection,
- use of learned methods for primary and secondary data collection by the use of new technologies within actual (social science) research projects,
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understanding advantages and disadvantages of using new technologies in practical social science research.
Basic sources and literature
- Callegaro, M., Lozar Manfreda, K., and Vehovar, V. (2015). Web survey methodology. Los Angeles [etc.]: Sage, 2015.
- Couper M. (2008). Designing effective Web Surveys. Cambridge Universtiy Press.
- Dillman, D. A., Smyth, J. D. et al. (2014). Internet, Phone, Mail, and Mixed-Mode Surveys: The Tailored Design Method. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
- Fielding et al. (2017). The Sage Handbook of Online Research Methods. Sage.
- Hewson, C., Vogel, C. M., and Laurent, D. (2016). Internet research methods. 2nd ed. Los Angeles [etc.]: Sage.
- Hesse-Biber, S. J. (Ed.). 2011. The handbook of emergent technologies in social research. New York : Oxford University Press.
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