Social research 2.0: virtual snowball sampling method using Facebook
By Fabiola Baltar, Ignasi Brunet. Internet Research, 2012
1,247 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Communication, Sociology and Political Science
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/3fa0e23d3a54fd0d475c0cd2bd6fb4c96a969be2
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In Communication
- Dequan Wang
- Hans De Witte
- Richard Huaman-Ramirez
- Valeria Lo Iacono
- Paul Symonds
- D. Brown
- Mai Nguyen
- Jeffrey P. Carpenter
In Sociology and Political Science
- Tinne Vander Elst
- A. van den Broeck
- Dequan Wang
- Hans De Witte
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- Valeria Lo Iacono
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- D. Brown
Citations in the corpus
- "Together we are better": Professional learning networks for teachers (2016, background): “Snowball sampling has been commonly used in research on voluntary social media activities where it is challenging to gather random samples (e.g., Carpenter & Krutka, 2014; Baltar & Brunet, 2012; Fewkes & McCabe, 2012; Visser, Evering, & Barrett, 2014).”
- Skype as a Tool for Qualitative Research Interviews (2016, methodology): “…a topic of enquiry include: online ethnographies (Beneito-Montagut 2011; Garcia et al. 2009; Kozinets 2009); blogs analysis (Hookway 2008; Rettberg 2008); Facebook as a research tool and source of data (Baker 2013; Baltar & Brunet 2012; Brickman Bhutta 2012;Taylor et al. 2014; Wilson et al. 2012).”
- Watch, Share or Create: The Influence of Personality Traits and User Motivation on TikTok Mobile Video Usage (2020, methodology): “The use of this method is effective for descriptive and exploratory studies and for hard-to reach populations [59].”
- Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model (2021, neutral): “These women entrepreneurs referred other women, creating a “snowball” effect (Baltar & Brunet, 2012; Eager et al., 2019; Watson & McGowan, 2019).”
- Engaging and retaining customers with AI and employee service (2020, positive): “The survey was designed to prevent skipping questions to minimise missing data (Baltar and Brunet, 2012).”
- The mediating role of psychological needs in the relation between qualitative job insecurity and counterproductive work behavior (2014, methodology): “Third, data collection was conducted via a snowball sampling procedure, which has been criticized for the lack of representativeness and selection bias problems (Baltar and Brunet, 2012).”
- Brand experience effects on brand attachment: the role of brand trust, age, and income (2019, methodology): “The virtual snowball sampling method enabled expanding rapidly the sample size and accessing “hard to reach” individuals (Baltar and Brunet, 2012).”