I just discovered this today, but Public Opinion Quarterly 72(5) is a special edition dedicated completely to web surveys. All articles are available as a free download. If you’re using web surveys in your research, this is an issue you’ll want to pay attention to.
Have Web surveys lived up the hope and expectations of some, or the fears of others? Some claimed that Web surveys would replace other modes of data collection (especially telephone surveys); others saw Web surveys contributing to the disintegration or dilution—if not total demise—of the survey enterprise. Neither of these extremes has come to pass. Web surveys, like other methods of survey data collection, have strengths and weaknesses. Much of the research over the past several years has focused on identifying these strengths and weaknesses and finding ways to overcome the former and exploit the latter. The papers in this special issue continue this trend.
Notably, Sociological Methods & Research 37(3) is also a special edition dedicated to web surveys. This one is behind the paywall, unfortunately.
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