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* AND HERE IS a database archive on culture and the arts.

EDF 5481 METHODS OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
INSTRUCTOR: DR. SUSAN CAROL LOSH
FALL 2017

Instructional designers and others who are interested in computer and Internet usage will definitely want to check out this archive.

This is the Pew Internet and American Life archive and it is HUGE.

 SEE IT HERE, JUST CLICK ON THE COMPUTER:

This is just ONE of the massive Pew research sites. They have an incredible archive of databases, including on religion and spirituality.

FROM THE MAN WHO GAVE YOU SPSS (Norman Nie) explore THIS market research site (formerly Knowledge Networks.com) for some of the most ingenious research using Internet respondents.
Unfortunately Norman Nie died in Spring 2015; he was a total innovator for online surveys, online panels and other research (not to mention SPSS, of course).
He used RDD surveys to identify respondents then recruited them into online surveys thereby approximating an internet probability sample. If participants didn't have an Internet connection, Knowledge Networks gave them one!


As part of the University of Southern California, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is the Center for the Digital Future. They've been collecting and analyzing data on computer and Internet use (*and various other digital gadgets) for several years.

The Director, Jeff Cole, has been investigating the topic on a national basis since AT LEAST 2000.
 

December 3 2017