Social networking versus facebook advertising to recruit survey respondents: A quasi-experimental study

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Gilligan, Conor ^a,b   Kypri, Kypros ^a,c   Bourke, Jesse ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Facebook; Facebook advertising; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099718890     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3317     Document Type: Article

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