Comparative response to a survey executed by post, e-mail, & web form

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages

  Yun, Gi Woona ^a,b   Trumbg, Craig W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ELECTRONIC MAIL; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SAMPLING; SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

COMMON GATEWAY INTERFACES (CGI); COMPUTER AIDED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWING (CATI) SURVEYS; ELECTRONIC TEXT COMMUNICATION;

ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE;

EID: 0012878991     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2000.tb00112.x     Document Type: Review

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