The suggested readings cover a variety of topics dealing
with the issues associated with using the Internet to conduct research. Most of the articles come
from psychology and other social science journals.
Bibliography
Bassett, E. H., &
O’Riordan, K. (2002). Ethics of internet research: Contesting the human
subjects research model. Ethics and Information Technology, 4,
233-247.
Best, S. J., Krueger,
B., Hubbard, C., & Smith, A. (2001). An assessment of the
generalizability of internet surveys. Social Science Computer Review,
19, 131–145.
Binik, Y. M., Mah,
K., Kiesler, S. (1999). Ethical issues in conducting sex research on the
internet. The Journal of Sex Research, 36, 82-90.
Birnbaum, M. H.
(2004). Human research and data collection via the internet.
Annual Review of Psychology, 55,
803-832.
Capurro, R., & Pingel,
C. (2002). Ethical issues of online communication research. Ethics
and Information Technology, 4, 189-194.
Crawford, S. D.,
Couper, M. P., & Lamias, M. J. (2001). Web surveys: Perceptions of
burden. Social Science Computer Review, 19, 146-162.
Duffy, M. E. (2002).
Methodological issues in web-based research. Journal of
Nursing Scholarship, 34,
83-88.
Duncan, G. T.
(1996). Is my research ethical? Association for Computing
Machinery: Communications of the ACM,
39, 67-68.
Gould, M. S., Munfakh,
J. L. H., Lubell, K., Kleinman, M., & Parker, S. (2002). Seeking help
from the internet during adolescence. Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, 41, 1182-1189.
Gosling, S. D.,
Vazire, S., Srivastava, S., & John, O. P. (2004). Should we trust
web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about
internet questionnaires. American Psychologist, 59, 93-104.
Heerwegh, D., &
Loosveldt, G. (2002a). Web surveys: The effects of controlling survey
access using PIN numbers. Social Science Computer Review, 20,
10-21.
Heerwegh, D., &
Loosveldt, G. (2002b). An evaluation of the effect of response formats on
data quality in web surveys. Social Science Computer Review, 20,
471-484.
Hessler, R. M.,
Downing, J., Beltz, C., Pelliccio, A. Powell, M., & Vale, W. (2003).
Qualitative research on adolescent risk using e-mail: A methodological
assessment. Qualitative Sociology, 26, 111-124.
Hiskey, S., & Troop,
N. A. (2002). Online longitudinal survey research: Viability and
participation. Social Science Computer Review, 20, 250-259.
Im, Eun-Ok, & Chee,
Wonshik (2002). Issues in protection of human subjects in internet
research. Nursing Research, 51, 266-269.
Knapp, H., & Kirk, S.
A. (2003). Using pencil and paper, internet and touch-tone phones for
self-administered surveys: Does methodology matter? Computers in
Human Behavior, 19, 117-134.
LaCoursiere, S.
(2003). Research methodology for the internet: External validity
(generalizability). Advances in Nursing Science, 26, 257-273.
Mandel, N., &
Johnson, E. J. (2002). When web pages influence choice: Effects of
visual primes on experts and novices. Journal of Consumer Research,
29, 235-245.
Mathy, R. M., &
Cooper, A. (2003). The duration and frequency of internet use in a
nonclinical sample: Suicidality, behavioral problems, and treatment
histories. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 40,
1215-135.
Mathy, R., Kerr, D.
H., & Haydin, B. M. (2003). Methodological rigor and ethical
considerations in internet-mediated research. Psychotherapy:
Research, Practice, Training, 40, 77-85.
McCabe, S. E., Boyd,
C. J., & Couper, M. (2002). Mode effects for collecting alcohol and other
drug use data: Web and U.S. Mail. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63,
755-761.
Miller, T. I.,
Kobayashi, M. M., Caldwell, E., Thurston, S. Collett, B. (2002). Citizen surveys on
the web: General population surveys of community opinion. Social
Science Computer Review, 20, 124-136.
Nosek, B. A., Banaji,
M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2002). E-research: Ethics, security, design,
and control in psychological research on the internet. Journal of
Social Issues, 58, 161-176.
Nosek, B. A., Banaji,
M. R., & Greenwald, A. G. (2002). Harvesting implicit group attitudes
and beliefs from a demonstration web site. Group Dynamics: Theory,
Research, and Practice, 6, 101-115.
O’Neil, K. M., Penrod,
S. D., & Bornstein, B. H. (2003). Web-based research: Methodological
variables’ effects on droupout and sample characteristics. Behavior
Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 35, 217-226.
Palmiter, D., &
Renjilian, D. (2003). Clinical web pages: Do they meet expectations?
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 34, 164-169.
Peterson, M. W., &
Frets, P. C. (2003). Patient use of the internet for information in a
lung cancer clinic. CHEST, 123, 452-457.
Pettitt, F. A.
(2002). A comparison of World-Wide Web and paper-and-pencil personality
questionnaires. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers,
34, 50-54.
Reips, Ulf-Dietrich
(2002).
Standards for Internet-based experimenting.
Experimental Psychology, 49,
243-256.
Reips, Ulf-Dietrich,
& Neuhaus, C. (2002). WEXTOR: A web-based tool for generating and
visualizing experimental designs and procedures. Behavior Research
Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 34, 234-240.
Sills, S. J., & Song,
C. (2002). Innovations in survey research: An application of web-based
surveys. Social Science Computer Review, 20, 22-30.
Strickland, O. L.,
Moloney, M., Dietrich, A. A., Myerburg, S., Cotsonis, G. A., & Johnson, R.
V. (2003). Measurement issues related to data collection on the world
wide web. Advances in Nursing Science, 26, 246-256.
Tourangeau, R.
(2004). Survey research and societal change. Annual Review
of Psychology, 55,
775-801.
Tourangeau, R.,
Couper, M. P., & Steiger, D. M. (2003). Humanizing self-administered
surveys: Experiments on social presence in web and IVR surveys.
Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 1-24.
Truell, A. D.,
Bartlett, J. E., & Alexander, M. W. (2002). Response rate, speed, and
completeness: A comparison of Internet-based and mail surveys.
Behavior Research Methods, Insturments, & Computers, 34, 45-49.
Walther, J. B.
(2002). Research ethics in internet-enabled research: Human subjects
issues and methodological myopia. Ethics and Information Technology,
4, 205-216.
Witmer, D. F.,
Colman, R. W., Katzman, S. L. (1998). From Paper-and-pencil to screen-and-keyboard:
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