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Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk and Beyond (SAGE Innovations in Research Methods)

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Product Description Conducting Online Research on Amazon Mechanical Turk® and Beyond, written by Leib Litman and Jonathan Robinson, provides both students and experienced researchers with essential information about the online platforms most often used for social science research. This insightful and accessible text answers common questions like, "How do I maintain data quality in online studies?," "What is the best way to recruit hard-to-reach samples?" and "How can researchers navigate the ethical issues that are unique to online research?" Drawing on their experiences as the founders of CloudResearch (formerly TurkPrime), the authors provide information that guides new users planning their first online studies and engages even the most experienced researchers with detailed discussions about the challenges of online research. The book begins with an overview of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and its rapid rise within academic research. Then, the authors describe how to set up an MTurk study with screenshots that walk readers through the steps of creating an account, designing a study, collecting data, and using third-party applications to enhance MTurk’s functionality. Later chapters provide readers with a detailed understanding of the MTurk environment and use data from hundreds of thousands of participants and tens of millions of completed tasks to dive into issues like participant demographics, sources of sampling bias, and the generalizability of findings from MTurk. Finally, the book explores the benefits of using other online platforms as a complement to MTurk and the ethical issues that are unique to conducting research with online participant platforms. Throughout the book, the authors share hands-on advice and best practices, such as those for conducting longitudinal studies or carrying out complex studies. Altogether the mix of data, insight, and advice make this book an essential resource for researchers who want to understand the online environment and the most effective ways to conduct research online.  Review "This is the best practical guide I have seen written in any methodologically written book!"  -- Michaela Porubanova "Great overview of literature developing in several fields; it′s hugely valuable to have all of this in one place."  -- Kevin Munger "They cover the whole gamut of history/background, practical concerns and scholarly concerns."  -- See-yeon Hwang " I am looking forward to being able to hand this to my students and know they′ll be ready to get started on MTurk and really understand the whole system (i.e., not just the mechanics of getting data, but really "getting" the culture and so on). I would probably also find myself citing this book as it discusses many of the issues I personally research."  -- Alice M. Brawley About the Author Dr. Leib Litman received a PhD in experimental psychology from the City University of New York. His early research was in the area of implicit learning, focusing on the relationship between conscious and unconscious information processing. After receiving his Ph.D , he was a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist in cognitive neuroscience at New York University where he studied episodic memory using fMRI. Leib’s current methodological research interests are in the area of online data collection, especially in the application of online data collection tools to complex research designs, such as dyadic studies, experience sampling, intensive longitudinal designs, qualitative video and focus group interviews, and global data collection. Leib is currently an Associate Professor of psychology at Lander College in Queens, New York, and Director of Research at CloudResearch.com (formerly TurkPrime). Leib lives in Riverdale, New York with his wife Sarah and their two girls Bella and Rebecca. Dr. Jonathan Robinson has been creating software since he was 12 and started his first software company with a few high school friends at age 15. He continued to d