Do imposter participants compromise online qualitative research?

23 Jul 2024

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, finding participants for qualitative studies has increasingly become an online process mediated by social media or platforms such as Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Yet, how confident can researchers be that these participants are who they say they are? Exploring this issue, Becca Muir suggests it presents challenges, but also opportunities, for researchers … Continued
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