Facebook advertisements for survey participant recruitment: Considerations from a multi-national study

International Journal of Electronic Commerce Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 199-218

  Thomson, Robert ^a   Ito, Naoya ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cross cultural; Data collection; Facebook advertisements; Internet research methods; Recruitment; SNS; Surveys

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; DATA ACQUISITION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; NETWORKING; RECRUITMENT (EMPLOYMENT); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SECURITY;

EID: 84920026634     PISSN: 20739729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7903/ijecs.1175     Document Type: Article

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