Hello everyone,
I am currently looking for a way to sample facebook posts in facebook pages. I will use content analysis to categorize text and code it into categories then measure an estimate for a validation for an ABM. There are too many posts with lots of comments, I can't take a census.
Can anyone recommend a book/method to use?
I think you must start by defining your "accessible" and feasible population. This will guide you in sampling. But considering that your participants can be accessed at the tip of your finger tips, I would advise that you cover the whole population, not just a sample.
A colleague of mine had a similar problem - and (bad news!), she told me she did not find a solution. She actually had to analyze each post (but that in an automatic fashion with atlas.ti or something like that). So, seemingly, it is not as easy as it should be to do research with/on facebook.
Opps ! I hope there is a way. Since the data collected is about 40,000 case and I don't have much time for taking them all and do that analysis. There is a time constraint.
I am sure that sampling methods may be valid (such as systematic sampling). There must be a way out.
@Eddie well all posts and comments are accessible but not all are feasible. I used a software that extracted facebook content, It can get all the posts but not all the comments (only a portion), So although theoretically all are accessible only some are feasible.
@Philipp I am interested to contact your fiend for more information. Can you connect us together? (by email/reasearchgate/facebook or anyother way)
Hi. Noha Nagi. I'm interested with this question. Did you get the solution?
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