It is a great pleasure for us to welcome you all to the 19th General
Online Research conference.
We’re proud to welcome our guests for the first time in Berlin. We are
convinced that Berlin as a venue of the GOR 17 is a good decision for
three reasons: we are celebrating 20 years of GOR (the first GOR conference took place in 1997) and what place could be more suitable to
celebrate online research than Berlin, which is the centre of one of the
largest and most diverse scientific regions in Europe and at the same
time the unofficial capital of the German digital scene. Secondly, one of
the main topics of this year’s conference is electoral research, because
it’s an important election year in which the 19th Bundestag, based in
Berlin, is elected. Thirdly, Berlin is simply a wonderful city full of history
and stories. For these reasons, we are very happy to host this year’s
GOR in cooperation with Berlin’s largest university of applied science
HTW in the German capital.
We again have a great conference programme lined up for you which
includes keynotes, presentations, posters and awards. You can
choose from four different conference tracks: Track A covers Internet Surveys, Mobile Web and Online Research Methodology. Track B
covers Big Data and Data Science. Track C features Electoral Research and
Political Communication and Track D gives insights in advances in
applied online research and is jointly organized with marktforschung.
de. In addition, we have three award competitions: i) the GOR Best
Practice Award 2017 for the best practice study from applied online
research, ii) the GOR Thesis Award 2017 for the best thesis (bachelor,
master and PhD) in online research and iii) the GOR Poster Award 2017
for the best poster at the conference.
We are very much looking forward to this year’s keynotes: On Thursday, 16 March 2017, Patrick Sturgis (Professor of Research Methodology in the Department of Social Statistics at the University of
Southampton and Director of the ESRC National Centre for Research
Methods (NCRM)) will share his insights from chairing the British
Polling Council’s and the Market Research Society’s joint inquiry into
the 2015 British general election opinion polls in his keynote “The Failure of the Polls: Lessons Learned from the 2015 UK Polling Disaster”.
On Friday, 17 March 2017, Prof. Dr. Bernad Batinic (head of the Department of Work, Organizational and Media Psychology (AOM) at the
University of Linz, Austria, and one of the founders of DGOF as well as
the GOR conference series) will give us an overview of these past 20
years of online research as well as an outlook on what is still to come
in his keynote titled “Celebrating 20 years of GOR: The Past, Present
and Future of Online Research”.
Cathleen M. Stützer
Applied Research Data Science Digital Methods Online Research Survey Research