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Organizers
Organizer of GOR 12 and founder of the General Online Research conference series
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Online-Forschung e.V. (DGOF)
DGOF represents the interests of online researchers in German speaking countries. Its members are both companies and people who work in areas of academia, market research, government or other aspects of online research.
Online research covers several aspects: The internet as a means to conduct research, the internet as the topic of research, and mobile communications as part of online research.
The objective of DGOF is to facilitate academic and applied online research. An important goal is the acceptance, discussion, and development of internet-based data collection methods as an equally sound method in the canon of classical research approaches. DGOF develops, establishes and adheres to accepted scientific standards for conducting online research.
The DGOF board consists of four members: a chairman, two deputy chairmen, and a treasurer. The board is elected for a term
of two years.
Distribution of responsibilities within the board:
- Christoph Irmer (ODC Services GmbH), chairman of the board, online market research, quality standards and sponsoring;
- Visiting Professor Dr. Martin Welker(University of Leipzig, Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Department of Journalism), deputy chairman, communications and marketing;
- Dr. Monika Taddicken (University of Hamburg, Institute of Journalism and Communication Research), deputy chairman, science, GOR organization, members;
- Dr. Lars Kaczmirek (GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for Social Sciences), treasurer, finances, science and internationalization.
