BSA Working Group Tackles Issues on Conducting Research on the Internet

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Wandersman
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Conducting Research

Participant recruitment and data collection through Facebook: the role of personality factors

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Chandler Rife ◽  
Kelly L. Cate ◽  
Michal Kosinski ◽  
David Stillwell
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Social Networking Service ◽  
Participant Recruitment ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Promising Avenue

As participant recruitment and data collection over the Internet have become more common, numerous observers have expressed concern regarding the validity of research conducted in this fashion. One growing method of conducting research over the Internet involves recruiting participants and administering questionnaires over Facebook, the world’s largest social networking service. If Facebook is to be considered a viable platform for social research, it is necessary to demonstrate that Facebook users are sufficiently heterogeneous and that research conducted through Facebook is likely to produce results that can be generalized to a larger population. The present study examines these questions by comparing demographic and personality data collected over Facebook with data collected through a standalone website, and data collected from college undergraduates at two universities. Results indicate that statistically significant differences exist between Facebook data and the comparison data-sets, but since 80% of analyses exhibited partial η2 < .05, such differences are small or practically nonsignificant in magnitude. We conclude that Facebook is a viable research platform, and that recruiting Facebook users for research purposes is a promising avenue that offers numerous advantages over traditional samples.

Peer-to-Peer SIP for Mobile Computing

2011 ◽  
pp. 326-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erkki Harjula ◽  
Jani Hautakorpi ◽  
Nicklas Beijar ◽  
Mika Ylianttila
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Heterogeneous Environments ◽  
Information Technology Industry ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Technology Industry

Due to the increasing popularity of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing, the information technology industry and standardization organizations have started to direct their efforts on standardizing P2P algorithms and protocols. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has recently formed the Peer-to-Peer SIP (P2PSIP) working group for enabling serverless operation of Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). This chapter introduces the P2PSIP by presenting its background and purpose, operational principles, current status, and application areas. The focus is on the challenges and problem areas from the viewpoint of standardization and related research. The mobile- and heterogeneous environments are considered with special care. The authors provide a glance to the existing and emerging solutions that may be used in tackling the mentioned challenges and thus paving the way for successful deployment of P2PSIP in mobile environments.

Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach (ANIMA)

2018 ◽  
pp. 90-112
Author(s):  
Toerless Eckert
Keyword(s):  
Working Group ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Network Infrastructure ◽  
Autonomic Networking ◽  
Autonomic Networks

This chapter presents the work of the Autonomic Networking Integrated Model and Approach (ANIMA) working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It was formed to standardize protocols and procedures for an ANIMA autonomic network (AN) and first chartered to define the ANIMA secure autonomic network infrastructure (ANI). This chapter describes the technical history and goals leading to this working group. It then describes how the ANIMA approach provides an evolutionary approach to securing and automating networks and to provide a common infrastructure to evolve into future autonomic networks. Finally, this chapter compares this approach to adjacent standards technologies and discusses interesting next steps.

Pop Quiz Debacle

2012 ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
Leanne Spinale
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Advanced Placement ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Smart Phones ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Talented Students ◽  
Very High

It is now commonplace for students to bring PDAs and smart phones into the classroom, which gives them swift access to the internet. While this technology is a benefit for students conducting research for a project, it can also be detrimental for educators conducting assessments. “Pop Quiz Debacle” describes a particular quandary for educators who work with advanced placement or Gifted/Talented students. For students with a very high GPA and other academic performance, what distinguishes them is how perfect they are, so there’s no room for any kind of error. If there’s no room for error, students tend to cheat–even though these students would have done just fine on the test. They say they cheat because, “this is my safety net.”

All that Glitters is Not Gold: Examining the Perils and Obstacles in Collecting Data on the Internet

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cha Yeow Siah
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Measurement Errors ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Sampling Error ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Past ◽  
Areas Of Concern ◽  
Conducting Research

AbstractThe speed, ease and cost of conducting an internet-based study has attracted an increasingly large number of researchers to the medium for data collection. The lure of conducting research on the internet warrants heightened awareness of the practical problems one may encounter in the course of design and data collection. Researchers should also be attuned to the various threats of reliability and validity that may affect the quality of their data. This article surveys the past literature and identifies four main areas of concern in internet-based research: (1) sampling error and generalizability; (2) subject fraud; (3) measurement errors resulting from extraneous factors, and (4) the ethics of conducting research on the internet. Before carrying out their research on the internet, researchers should carefully weigh the sometimes hidden costs against the obvious benefits to consider whether the results obtained will be seriously compromised by the problems currently existing with this relatively new medium. However, a more productive approach recognizes that this research method is here to stay and thus greater attention needs to be given to refining and clearing the hurdles that internet-based researchers currently face.

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