An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital age. In just the
past several years, we have witnessed the birth and rapid spread of social media, mobile …

This article examines an important and thorny problem in interview research: How to assess
whether what people say motivated their actions actually did so? We ask three questions …

Recent studies show the effectiveness of interview chatbots for information elicitation.
However, designing an effective interview chatbot is non-trivial. Few tools exist to help …

Although the past decade has shown enormous growth in the number of surveys conducted
online, conducting surveys by means of telephone or face-to-face interviews is still a large …

The benefits of rapport between interviewers and respondents, in terms of recruiting the
latter and motiving them to participate in research, have been generally endorsed. However …

In many panel surveys that rely on face-to-face interviewing, interviewers are repeatedly
allocated to the same respondents in each wave. Researchers and fieldwork agencies …

A model for investigating the effects of body movement on conversational effectiveness in
computer-mediated communication (CMC) is developed based on theories of motor …

Live video (LV) communication tools (eg, Zoom) have the potential to provide survey
researchers with many of the benefits of in-person interviewing, while also greatly reducing …

Interviewer-respondent rapport is generally considered to be beneficial for the quality of the
data collected in survey interviews; however, the relationship between rapport and data …

This article develops an integrative perspective on the nexus between power and
sociological research methods. By reflecting upon two of the most widely used …