The Anonymous Elect: Market Research Through Online Access Panels

by Andrei Postoaca

Overview

The Anonymous Elect is the book that restores market research to its original condition and bestows it its full interdisciplinary rights. It asks questions that address market researchers and sociologists as well as psychologists, linguists and specialists in marketing and communication: Is there a language of online panel communication? What does this language say about the relationship between the online researcher and the online respondent? To what extent has the online medium increased the self-awareness of today’s respondents to research studies?

A memorable experiment in writing, Andrei Postoaca’s exploration of online access panels is a book about interviewing and being interviewed, addressing and being addressed. By shifting the two voices involved in the online panel communication, the author approaches market research not only by way of facts, figures and plain statistical evidence but also by way of interpretation of the rhetoric of the online surveying act.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642067068
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/09/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Pages:	157
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

To Panel or Not to Panel — What Is and What Is Not an Online Access Panel.- Bottling Communication: The Rhetoric of Online Interviewing.- Launching the Bottle: The Rhetoric of the Online Researcher.- Finding the Bottle: The Rhetoric of the Online Panellist.- Conclusions.