Facebook is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful research tool for the social sciences. It
constitutes a large and diverse pool of participants, who can be selectively recruited for both …

Random walks are ubiquitous in the sciences, and they are interesting from both theoretical
and practical perspectives. They are one of the most fundamental types of stochastic …

Purpose–This paper aims to delineate the meaning, conceptual boundaries and dimensions
of consumer engagement within the context of online brand communities both in term of the …

Qualitative Methods in Social Work Research provides accessible, how-to instruction for
carrying out rigorous qualitative research. Deborah K. Padgett's thoroughly revised Third …

Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in
anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard's unmistakable conversational style, this guide has …

" The level is appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level statistics major.
Sampling: Design and Analysis (SDA) will also benefit a non-statistics major with a desire to …

Based on a survey of participants in Egypt's Tahrir Square protests, we demonstrate that
social media in general, and Facebook in particular, provided new sources of information …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to present a sampling method using virtual networks to
study “hard‐to‐reach” populations. In the ambit of social research, the use of new …

Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in
anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being …

In the thoroughly updated edition of Social Network Analysis, authors David Knoke and
Song Yang take into account the vast number of changes in the field that have occurred in …