4 - Experiment Design

Summary

This chapter explains how to design experiments to study black-box corporate surveillance systems. The chapter first examines the kinds of research questions that can be asked about corporate surveillance systems. Then, it describes different high-level study designs for transparency research, followed by a look at longitudinal studies and how they can be conducted. After examining the challenges that transparency researchers face in designing these experiments, the chapter focuses on input variables that are influenced and varied during an experiment, variables that are outside the experimenter's influence, and variables that are measured (response or output variables).