Social media are a central part of the experience of using the internet, and indeed much current research tends to be about social media rather than ‘the internet’ as such. Recently there was a discussion on the AoIR email list regarding definitions of social media, and I’m just summarising what was said there for my […]
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Year: 2017
Your Sample Is Not Random
When collecting data on what people do, you need to communicate with them (unless you are doing observation only), and you need some system for deciding who you will select for communicating with (i.e. interviewing, online survey, etc.). These people you select are your sample. A truly random sample means that everyone within a pool […]