Using Social Networking Sites in Subject Tracing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2407377 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Nwadiuko (0000-0002-2498-2972, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author), Patricia Isbell (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Adam J Zolotor (0000-0002-9007-223X, University of North Carolina Health Care), Jon M Hussey (0000-0003-1799-9845, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jon Hussey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jonathan B Kotch (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 77-85 |
| Publication date | 2011-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CAM (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1087-8513 • E-ISSN: 1552-3969 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1525822x10384088 |
| OpenAlex | W2107102815 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace provide a novel method for tracing subjects in longitudinal research studies. This article describes how the southern site of the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) consortium used Facebook and MySpace to follow-up subjects inaccessible to traditional means of contact. A search conducted on both sites for the profiles of 151 subjects not located by traditional means yielded profiles belonging to 35 users, 7 of whom responded to our communication by agreeing to remain in the study, reducing the number of attritted subjects by 4.6%. The results suggest that Facebook and MySpace do carry potential as platforms for confidential tracing processes, although they may provide limited success when applied to a study's most hard-to-locate subjects
Computer security · Confidentiality · Contact tracing · Internet privacy · Longitudinal study · Neglect · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics) · Subject (documents) · Tracing · World Wide Web · Child Abuse and Trauma · Computer Science · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |