Looking For Audiences：Inquiry into the Internet Audiences Research Methods and Related Questions

• Main Authors: Kao, Yu-Fang, 高玉芳
• Other Authors: 黃葳威
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44102620878024378419

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 廣播電視學系 === 89 === With changing in time and mass communication technology advancements, various qualitative and quantitative research methods have been developed by audience research, in response to different needs. Based on many research reports, which indicates: The steady increase of Internet users, e-commerce and Internet advertisement, the Internet has becomes another important communication channel and sales method. Because Internet possesses the ability to conduct online trading, sales and mass media, the role of Internet audience has become very important. At the moment, how do we actually conduct research on Internet audience? How do we use the collected Internet audience information? Will we infringe on personal privacy? Because of Internet has no distance limitation and the ability to use fake identities, which will cause difficulty to verify each audience掇 true identity. But, with the availability of Internet, it alsoprovides additional methods for audience research This paper attempts to follow the traditional audience掇 qualitative and quantitative research methods, and to further analyze literatures and conduct in-depth interviews. Based on the current internet audience research methods, we have divide it into six categories, and analyze each individual method掇 positive/ negative points and its applicability, also, to probe the related questions, and hope to provide some new directions and suggestions for the future researchers.