Issues in online focus groups: Lessons learned from an empirical study of peer-to-peer filesharing system users

Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 95-110

  Hughes, Jerald ^a   Lang, Karl R ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital media; Digital music; File sharing; Focus group methodology; Online focus groups; Qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845769230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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