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Jan 1, 2017 · A comm on sampling approach for obtrusive IMR methods is to obtain 'true volunteer' samples, b y placing adverts in public space s for potential participants to view and respond if they wish ...
- A Decade of IMR
- The Changing Face of The Internet
- Reliability and Representativeness
- Favoured Methods
- Practicalities and Ethics
- To The Future
IMR pioneers started publishing the results of their early investigative work from around the mid-1990s. Commentaries on this new mode of data collection started appearing around the early 2000s, in the form of books devoted to the topic (e.g. Mann & Stewart, 2000), and review articles (e.g. Nosek et al., 2002). Issues of concern at that time inclu...
In the early days of IMR, concerns were raised that samples accessed online were likely to consist largely of white, educated, middle-class, technologically proficient, professional males. If this point was perhaps overemphasised at the time, there were also good reasons to think internet users would be biased towards this profile. Such concerns ar...
Reconsidering the question of whether IMR methods can generate valid, reliable data, there is now very strong evidence that this is the case, across a broad range of domains and methods. Early 'validation studies' offered promising findings, suggesting that IMR data was of at least comparable quality to data gathered offline. Such research also sho...
Surveys and experiments are now well-established, commonly used IMR methods, as noted above. Interview and focus group research in IMR has not enjoyed quite the same success. Perhaps early mixed reports contributed to the less than enthusiastic uptake of these methods. For example, some authors noted problems in establishing good levels of rapport ...
Tools and software developments over the last decade or so have dramatically facilitated web-based survey implementation (and potentially data quality, e.g. by incorporating answer validity checks, preventing multiple submissions, etc.). Resources for assisting in constructing online experiments also exist, but generally demand more advanced comput...
Ongoing technological developments, as well as cultural developments in internet usage, are bound to continue to change the landscape of IMR. Some noteworthy developments are the expansion in the use of mobile devices, which creates a situation of users being ever-connected. Smartphone apps facilitate this integration, enhancing the range of online...
exists a range of tools to assist in implementing IMR studies, such as online survey software packages. Design issues in obtrusive Internet-mediated research The main methods associated with obtrusive approaches in IMR are surveys (including questionnaires and psychometric test instruments), experiments, interviews and focus groups.
There are now enough examples of IMR studies to start to think about a clas-sification scheme to represent the range and nature of approaches which have emerged. Figure 3.1 presents a framework for classifying key types of IMR study design along the obtrusive–unobtrusive dimension, since this dimension becomes
Jan 14, 2015 · The structure of the chapter is as follows: overview and history of IMR; scope and range of IMR methods, with illustrations; key issues and debates in IMR (data quality, sampling, ethics); future ...
Vogel (forthcoming). They consider the ‘obtrusive-unobtrusive’ dimension as effec-tive for distinguishing different types of IMR methods, noting that this distinction can help clarify how different issues, e.g. the ethics concerns that can arise, may map on to this dimension. Essentially, obtrusive methods involve participants
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Obtrusive IMR methods Gaining Informed Consent In situations where participants are actively recruited to knowingly take part in a research study, informed consent is required, and participants must be given the right to withdraw their consent, during or after participation (within a reasonable timescale), and must be
