Internet Research Methods

Hewson, Claire; Vogel, Carl; Laurent, Dianna

doi:10.4135/9781473920804

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“…In the case of the blogs used for my own research, they were entirely open to the public and as such there was not deemed to be potential for authors to be unclear about the public audience for their work (Gatson, ; Philips & Broderick, ). Despite the public and free availability of the data analysed in my own project, the names of the blogs, authors’ names and some identifying information were changed (following Hewson, Yule, Laurent, & Vogel, ; Pedersen & Lupton, ). However, when using internet sources, the use of direct quotations presents a very simple line of identification, due to their easy traceability (Dawson, ).…”

Section: Practical Ethics In Netnographymentioning

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Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research

Benzon

2018

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This paper seeks to extend debate on the use of blogs as qualitative data, specifically focusing on the issue of consent in research that uses publicly available but personal content. Typically the argument has been made for the need to protect individual writers and engage with these documents in a considered manner that recognises the inherent vulnerability of amateur authors. This paper will argue that a framing of these writers that foregrounds their potential vulnerability, naivety and even ignorance is in fact highly paternalistic, and therefore counter to an ethical approach to research. In seeking to protect authors from harm, we deny their agency and diminish the act of online publication. Further, this approach, prevalent in academia, is at odds with the legal position, and arguably, the weight of social understanding. A reframing of amateur online authors as informed agents not only increases the accessibility of these data to researchers and subsequently policy makers, but also alludes to a need to credit the contribution of authors without the need to seek permission. Ultimately, this paper argues for a presumption of accountability, unless otherwise proven, and an approach to the use of self-published online material that mirrors the use of other sorts of secondary data with perceived "professional" authors, such as magazine articles, newspaper columns or organisational literature. ENDNOTES 1 Frequently following (reading) online discussions occurring within a particular online space, without contributing. 2 The craft of developing a professional persona online.

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Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research

Benzon

2018

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“…In the UK, almost 90% of those aged 16-24 use the internet daily (Office for National Statistics, 2013). Online surveys can be useful in research, especially in multi-site projects, as they have little distribution burden, are low cost and allow for rapid data collection (Sue and Ritter, 2011;Hewson et al, 2015). Studies have found that mail and online surveys were both comparable in quality, with online surveys sometimes yielding higher responses (Griffis et al, 2003;Hoonakker and Carayon, 2009).…”

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Challenges of research recruitment in a university setting in England

Vadeboncoeur

Foster

Townsend

2017

Health Promotion International

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The recruitment is an integral part of most research projects in medical sciences involving human participants. In health promotion research, there is increasing work on the impact of environments. Settings represent environments such as schools where social, physical and psychological development unfolds. In this study, we investigated weight gain in students within a university setting. Barriers to access and recruitment of university students within a specific setting, in the context of health research are discussed. An online survey on health behaviours of first year students across 101 universities in England was developed. Ethics committees of each institutions were contacted to obtain permission to recruit and access their students. Recruitment adverts were standardized and distributed within restrictions imposed by universities. Three time points and incentives were used. Several challenges in recruiting from a university setting were found. These included (i) ethics approval, (ii) recruitment approval, (iii) navigating restrictions on advertisement and (iv) logistics of varying university academic calendars. We also faced challenges of online surveys including low recruitment, retention and low eligibility of respondents. From the 101 universities, 28 allowed dissemination of adverts. We obtained 1026 responses at T1, 599 at T2 and 497 at T3. The complete-case sample represented 13% of those originally recruited at T1. Conducting research on students within the university setting is a time consuming and challenging task. To improve research-based health promotion, universities could work together to increase consistency as to their policies on student recruitment.

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“…Then it designs a research strategy to test those hypotheses. This research collects primary data (the frequency of ad impressions and ad clicks) through indirect observations to improve the data quality (Hewson, Vogel & Laurent 2016). The measurement is done through the ad spaces, which are designed with different characteristics based on the four publishers-controlled factors.…”

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An Integrated Effectiveness Framework of Mobile In-App Advertising

Truong

Nkhoma

Pansuwong

2019

AJIS

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Advertising in mobile apps has recently become one of the most popular advertising channels for businesses when its annual revenue has rapidly increased year over year. On this kind of advertising, the app publishers do not only play a critical role in the ad serving process but also receive a significant portion of the advertising revenue. Their goal of maximizing the revenue sometimes contradict with those of the advertisers. This research conceptualises the role of publishers and proposes an integrated effectiveness framework to further improve the effectiveness of mobile in-app advertising not for one but all participants involved. In specific, this research explores the factors being controlled by publishers and evaluates their impact on the common outcome metric of mobile in-app advertising. An application of the proposed effectiveness framework might help to increase the global mobile in-app advertising revenue significantly higher by balancing the benefits of all participants.

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Internet Research Methods

Cited by 58 publications

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Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research

Informed consent and secondary data: Reflections on the use of mothers’ blogs in social media research

Challenges of research recruitment in a university setting in England

An Integrated Effectiveness Framework of Mobile In-App Advertising

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