中文网络论坛的研究之抽样设计

网络论坛(或称网络BBS)出现并成为人类信息传播的一种新方式,它集中体现了网络传播隐匿、交互、跨时空区域及信息海量的特性。因而,针对网络论坛的研究也成为网络传播研究的一个重要方面。本文针对网络论坛研究的特点和抽样设计中的若干难点,探讨了解决长时间跨度、大规模信息量的网络论坛抽样的设计思路,并结合“全球中文时事论坛研究项目”,给出了一个兼具科学性和可操作性的设计方案,对如何提高抽样效能等问题也进行了有益的探索。

Sampling Design of Chinese Internet Forums Research

Since the appearance of Internet Forum (also called BBS),it not only becomes into a new information communication style of people, but also reflects the charcater of internet communication of anonymous,interactive,beyond time and region and great capacity of information.Thus,researches about internet forums form into an important point in internet communication research area. In view of the character of internet forum research and several difficulties in sampling design,this article approaches a design thought to solve the long time-span and redundant information in internet forums sampling. combining with the project A STUDY ON GLOBLE CHINESE FORUMS,this article provides a both scienfific and operational sampling design,and it also tries an useful exploration for the problems of how to improve the sampling effciency etc.