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标题：Twitter Chats as a Research Tool: A Study of Young Adult Financial Decisions
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作者：Barbara O’Neill ; Barbara O’Neill ; Yilan Xu 等
期刊名称：Journal of Human Sciences and Extension
印刷版ISSN：2325-5226
电子版ISSN：2325-5226
出版年度：2018
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：89-97
语种：English
出版社：Mississippi State University
摘要：Many researchers collect online survey data because it is cost-effective and less time-consuming than traditional research methods. This paper describes Twitter chats as a research tool vis-à-vis two other online research methods: providing links to electronic surveys to respondents and use of commercially available survey panels through vendors with readily available respondents. Similar to a face-to-face focus group, Twitter chats provide a synchronous environment for participants to answer a structured series of questions and to respond to both the chat facilitator and each other. This paper also reports representative responses from a Twitter chat that explored financial decisions of young adults. The chat was sponsored by a multi-state group of land-grant university researchers, in cooperation with WiseBread, a personal finance website targeted to millennials, to recruit respondents for a more extensive month-long online survey about the financial decisions of young adults. The Twitter chat responses suggest that student loans were the top concern of participants, and debt and housing rounded out the top three concerns. The internet, both websites and social media, was the most frequently cited source of financial information. The article concludes with a discussion of lessons learned from the Twitter chat experience and suggestions for professional practice.
关键词：millennials, financial decisions, personal finance, Twitter, online surveys