Sampling Design of Chinese Internet Forums Research
Tingting Xie · Application of Statistics and Management · 2005
Since the appearance of Internet Forum (also called BBS),it not only becomes into a new information communication style of people, but also reflects the charcater of internet communication of anonymous,interactive,beyond time and region and great capacity of information.Thus,researches about internet forums form into an important point in internet communication research area. In view of the character of internet forum research and several difficulties in sampling design,this article approaches a design thought to solve the long time-span and redundant information in internet forums sampling. combining with the project A STUDY ON GLOBLE CHINESE FORUMS,this article provides a both scienfific and operational sampling design,and it also tries an useful exploration for the problems of how to improve the sampling effciency etc.