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Aug 13, 2019 · The purpose of this primer was to identify opportunities, as well as potential pitfalls, of conducting qualitative research with Facebook users and their activity on Facebook and provide potential options to address each of these issues.
- Daschel Franz, Heather Elizabeth Marsh, Heather Elizabeth Marsh, Jason I Chen, Jason I Chen, Alan R ...
- 10.2196/13544
- 2019
- J Med Internet Res. 2019 Aug; 21(8): e13544.
- Welcome to 'Ce Corner'
- Part #1: Recruiting Participants
- Part #2: Recording Facebook Profile Data
- Part #3: Collecting Self-Reports on Facebook
- Part #4: Ethical Considerations
- Conclusions
"CE Corner" is a continuing education article offered by the APA Office of CE in Psychology. This feature will provide you with updates on critical developments in psychology, drawn from peer-reviewed literature and written by leading psychology experts. To earn CE credit, after you read this article, purchase the online exam. Upon successful compl...
While the Facebook population is not perfectly representative since its users tend to be younger and better educated than the general population, its sheer size implies that even underrepresented groups are relatively large. For example, as of 2014, nearly 35 percent of Americans over 65 years of age were on Facebook, and their number was quickly g...
Facebook profile information includes self-reported information (such as schools attended, current workplace, age and gender); traces of behavior (such as status updates or likes); and data contributed by others (such as photo tags or comments on a user's wall). These data can be recorded retrospectively and thus help researchers to address the sho...
Collecting self-reports from Facebook users is similar to collecting self-reports in other online environments. In fact, an existing online survey or questionnaire can be integrated easily with Facebook by adding a fragment of HTML code. Obtaining access to participants' Facebook profiles means that many of the typical questions (such as those conc...
Unfortunately, there are no clear guidelines on using Facebook or other social media platforms for research. Facebook offers participants a relatively high degree of control over their data, but it is the researcher's responsibility to weigh the costs and benefits of collecting and using personal user information — and to defer to an IRB when in do...
Digital devices and services such as Facebook now mediate a growing proportion of human activities. Social interactions, entertainment, shopping and other information can easily be recorded and analyzed, fueling the emergence of computational social science and facilitating the transition from small-scale experiments and observational studies to la...
- Kosinski, Michal
Sep 25, 2017 · Often seen as a place to socialise, connect with friends, and share pictures, an increasing number of academics and departments are turning to this popular social network — in particular the groups and Facebook ‘pages’ — for academic networking and research dissemination purposes.
Running interactive workshops with small groups can be an effective method for user research. They can help you learn more about the things that actual or likely users do, how they do them,...
May 16, 2012 · The literature review serves as the foundation from which to assess current findings and offer recommendations to the field for future research on Facebook and online social networks more broadly. Get full access to this article
- Robert E. Wilson, Samuel D. Gosling, Lindsay T. Graham
- 2012
Nov 2, 2020 · Our research: secret Facebook groups as a tool to co-produce interventions with hard-to-reach groups. This paper describes a method of co-production and intervention development specifically designed to overcome barriers of in-person research methods: online, secret Facebook groups.
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Mar 9, 2021 · We call our process a Research Insights Workshop. Essentially, it’s a collaborative way to bring disparate teams into the conversation, share with them key findings, and – most importantly – then have the teams themselves brainstorm ways to address the gaps and opportunities the research uncovered.