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"Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New"
by Gerry McKiernan 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

Colleagues/ Speaking Of Remix >> On July 5, the NYTimes published on article titled "To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery", which was noted in a post to one of our ISU internal e-lists. In part, the article discusses turnitin, the widely-used plagiarism detection system. As I response to comments on the story by list members, I informed the list of a recent presentation I gave at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference held just over two years ago. BTW: Comments on my blog post are Most Welcome (As Always) ! enJOY ! /Gerry A few years ago I gave a keynote at the 3rd International Plagiarism Conference / 23 - 25 June 2008 / City Campus East, Northumbria University / Newcastle-upon-tyne, UK / "Disruptive Scholarship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: (Re)Use / (Re)Mix / (Re)New" Abstract Hadrian's Wall is a stone and turf fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of modern-day England. ... [It was] 117 kilometres long, ... [I]ts width and height [were] dependent on the construction materials [that] ... were available nearby. ... [T]he wall in the east follow[ed] the outcrop of a hard, resistant igneous diabase rock escarpment ... Local limestone was used in the construction, except for ... section[s] in the west ... where turf was used instead ... . The Broad Wall was initially built with a clay-bonded rubble core and mortared dressed rubble facing stones, but this seems to have made it vulnerable to collapse, and repair with a mortared core was sometimes necessary.... [I]n time ... [Hadrian's] Wall was abandoned and fell into ruin. Over the centuries and even into the twentieth century a large proportion of the stone was reused in other local buildings. Throughout history, humans have (re)used local resources to create not only buildings and fortifications, but monuments, roads, and a wide variety of other structures. For countless generations, artists, composers, and writers have freely incorporated elements from local and distant cultures to create new visual, musical, and textual forms. In The Web 2.0 World, the open (re)combination of multiple media has become commonplace in many venues, practices that Lawrence Lessig [snip], founder of Creative Commons [snip]and others, would characterize as emblematic of a 'Remix ' or 'Read/Write' culture. Indeed, from his point of view, “the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process” [snip] In the recently-released Horizon Report 2008 - a joint publication of the New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), six emerging information technologies and practices that are expected to significantly impact educational organizations are profiled: Grassroots Video, Collaborative Webs, Mobile Broadband, Data Mashups, Collaborative Intelligence, and Social Operating Systems. In this presentation, we will review the Read/Write Traditions of the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences; analyze key Past / Present / Future Participatory Technologies; and explore the potential of Web 2.0 for creating/fostering Disruptive Learning / Scholarship / Teaching in the 21st century. The Director's Cut of the (150+ Slides) PPT is available from my _Scholarship 2.0_ blog at [ http://bit.ly/9riXmc ] I hope The Title and Abstract indicate that That I Have A Different View Of The P-Word [:-) Regards, /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>> _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…

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The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution
by Richard Forno 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution By Jessica A. Wood Richmond Journal of Law & Technology Volume XVI, Issue 4 Cite as: Jessica Wood, The Darknet: A Digital Copyright Revolution, XVI Rich. J.L. & Tech. 14 (2010), http://jolt.richmond.edu/v16i4/article14.pdf . Introduction [1] We are in the midst of a digital revolution. In this "Age of Peer Production," armies of amateur participants demand the freedom to rip, remix, and share their own digital culture. Aided by the newest iteration of file sharing networks, digital media users now have the option to retreat underground, by using secure, private, and anonymous file sharing networks, to share freely and breathe new life into digital media. These underground networks, collectively termed "the Darknet[,] will grow in scope, resilience, and effectiveness in direct proportion to [increasing] digital restrictions the public finds untenable." The Darknet has been called the public's great equalizing force in the digital millennium, because it will serve as "a counterbalancing force and bulwark to defend digital liberties" against forces lobbying for stronger copyrights and increased technological controls. [2] This article proposes a digital use exception to existing copyright law to provide adequate compensation to authors while promoting technological innovation, and the creation and dissemination of new works. Although seemingly counterintuitive, content producers, publishers, and distributors wishing to profit from their creations must relinquish their control over digital media in order to survive the Darknet era. Absent a government-granted monopoly, free market forces will provide adequate incentives to producers to create quality works, and an efficient dissemination infrastructure will evolve. [3] Part I examines the prospect that, due to the Darknet, it is virtually impossible to control digital copying. Peer production is increasing and darknets are becoming more prevalent. Liability rules, stringent copyrights, and technological protection measures stifle innovation, smother creation, and force consumers further underground into darknets. The Darknet poses a particular threat because it is impossible to track or proscribe user behavior. Further, the presence of the Darknet will render technological protection measures unenforceable, or at least impracticable, as a solution for digital copyright management. Part II introduces a digital use exception for copyright to deter development of the Darknet. The proposed copyright shelter is the solution most closely aligned with the goals of copyright, and a monopoly is no longer necessary or practical to accomplish those goals in the digital realm. Part III explores methods by which content creators, publishers, and distributors can profit under this new rule. Absent copyrights for digital works, service providers will capitalize on alternative business methods and data mining. Driven by necessity, they will commission the production of new works. ... <http://jolt.richmond.edu/v16i4/Article14.pdf>

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CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Quality in Techno-Social Systems
by Dario Taraborelli 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

(apologies for cross-posting) Call for Papers 2nd International Workshop on Quality in Techno-Social Systems at the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems SASO 2010 - September 28, 2010, Budapest, Hungary http://qlectives.eu/qteso Techo-social systems are ICT systems in which many people collectively coordinate and cooperate to achieve their goals without central control. These systems, for example Wikipedia, eBay, Web2.0 sites, social networks and peer-to-peer networks, have both self-organizing and self-adaptive aspects. In this workshop we aim to put the quality aspect of these complex systems into focus. Quality outcome can be produced by the individual users through selecting, producing and rating certain kinds of content. For example, trust and reputation may emerge among a community and be used to enhance quality. The workshop will consider mechanisms by which individual peers can be brought together automatically into collectives whose members share interests and agree about the evaluation of quality in the domain. The SASO conference focuses on how to make computer systems operate autonomously in a reliable, efficient and useful way with minimal user or operator intervention. The workshop addresses this very problem narrowing the focus down to techno-social systems. The question we ask is: how can one let a system self-organize to a high quality, desirable state, where users and their behavior form an integral part of the system (i.e., a techno-social system), and where self-organization at the system level has to be aligned with self-organization at the social level. The workshop is centered around the following technical issues: * incentive mechanisms for self-organizing and self-adaptive systems * evolving social interaction structures for quality * ranking, rating, reputation and recommendation in distributed systems * conflict and consensus detection, correction in distributed systems * realistic models of user behaviour and the dynamic social structures that they create * analysis of empirical and experimental data for quality * computational sociology of online communities * distributed social networks * quality metrics - how to measure in distributed systems Papers are welcome from the fields of theoretical and algorithmic foundations, algorithm design and simulation, as well as empirical data-sets collection, processing and validation. Audience The workshop is inherently interdisciplinary. Relevant areas include: sociology and psychology,in particular, the evolution of cooperation, opinion dynamics, the evolution of norms and trust relationships, etc; physics, in particular complex (social and technical) networks and models of the dynamics of group behavior; computer science, in particular P2P systems, data mining (ranking and recommendation), information retrieval, and distributed systems. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers that are neither accepted nor submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be carefully peer reviewed by the program committee. Inclusion in Proceedings The proceedings of all SASO workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as a bundle with the main conference proceedings, and made available as a part of the IEEE digital library. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: July 12, 2010 Acceptance Notification: August 6, 2010 Camera-ready version: August 20, 2010 Early registration deadline: August 13, 2010 Workshop: September 28, 2010 Author Guidelines Submissions should not exceed 6 pages and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society Press proceedings style guide and submitted electronically in pdf format. Please register as authors and submit your papers using the conference management system that will be linked at the http://qlectives.eu/qteso website well in advance of the submission deadline. Organization Comittee Nigel Gilbert, University of Surrey, UK Mark Jelasity, Hungarian Academy of Science and University of Szeged, Hungary Tamas Vinko, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Program Committee Fred Amblard, Université Toulouse 1 Capitole, France Nazareno Andrade, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Alastair Gill, University of Surrey, UK David Hales, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Sergi Lozano, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Matus Medo, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Andrzej Nowak, University of Warsaw, Poland Johan Pouwelse, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Camille Roth, CNRS, France Dario Taraborelli, University of Surrey, UK Yi-Cheng Zhang, University of Fribourg, Switzerland -- Dario Taraborelli Research Fellow Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH United Kingdom http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk http://nitens.org/taraborelli Editor, Review of Philosophy and Psychology http://www.springer.com/13164

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CIPR Grant for AoIR 11
by Elizabeth Buchanan 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the following grant opportunity for AoIR 11. Center for Information Policy Research (CIPR) School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee AoIR 11 Grant The CIPR will sponsor one student (undergraduate, graduate or post-doc) for the Gothenburg AoIR 11conference in the amount of $800 (US) The student’s research must focus on some aspect of information ethics or information policy, and internet studies, broadly conceived. The recipient must submit a proposal for a paper according to AoIR procedures. Once accepted, the following should be submitted to Elizabeth Buchanan at elizabeth(a)internetresearchethics.org Paper Abstract CV Brief statement describing how the paper will make an impact on the fields of information ethics, policy, and internet studies. Submissions should be received by 1 August 2010 Recipient will be notified by 30 August 2010 The recipient should acknowledge the CIPR grant at AoIR and in any subsequent presentations or publications. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Best, Elizabeth Elizabeth Buchanan, Ph.D. Director Center for Information Policy Research School of Information Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 414.229.3973 Principal Investigator, Internet Research Ethics Commons internetresearchethics.org (NSF Project # 0924604) elizabeth(a)internetresearchethics.org

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A Must Read > EQ > Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web
by Gerry McKiernan 11 Jul '10

11 Jul '10

Friends/ >>> IMHO > A Must/Must Read !!! <<< /Gerry EDUCAUSE Quarterly Magazine, Volume 33, Number 2, 2010 By Alan W. Aldrich Key TakeAways >>> Web-enabled smartphones (and their applications) have converged with cloud computing to change the ways people interact with each other and their environments. The academic community has only recently adopted mobile technology, and the few existing studies focus on one or two institutions rather than taking a cross-institutional view of mobile websites. The study reported here examined the mobile websites of large research universities and their libraries in the United States and Canada. Results found that few functions on university mobile websites clearly addressed educational needs, highlighting an opportunity to provide more educational links and applications. The convergence of web-enabled smartphones, the applications designed for smartphone interfaces, and cloud computing is rapidly changing how people interact with each other and with their environments. The commercial sector has taken the lead in creating mobile websites that leverage the capacities of smartphones, and the academic community has begun to follow suit. MIT and Stanford University launched mobile websites in June and October, 2008, respectively,1 with many more university mobile websites launched throughout 2009.2 Given this relatively recent adoption of mobile technology by the academic community, the handful of studies completed examine how people use academic mobile websites or identify what information/services they want to access via the mobile web and tend to focus on one or two institutions rather than a cross-section of mobile websites across multiple institutions. Cross-sectional studies identify the types of services commonly offered while allowing for comparisons between what is offered and what users want or need to access using the mobile web. The study reported in this article examines the mobile websites of large research universities and their libraries in the United States and Canada. The services available on different university and library mobile websites are compared and contrasted with the literature identifying what mobile web users desire. This analysis across multiple mobile websites provides universities and their libraries with an initial benchmark for comparisons with other institutions. Future research on the mobile web can identify trends and design issues that are currently only objects of speculation. [more] Source And Full Article Available At [ http://bit.ly/9ksEvw ] !!! Thanks To Gary Price / ResourceShelf / For The HeadsUp!!! EnJOY ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan Associate Professor Science and Technology Librarian Iowa State University Library Ames IA 50011 Follow Me On Twitter > http://twitter.com/GMcKBlogs >>> "The Future Is Mobile" >>> _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:…

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Text analysis of blog posts and comment threads: discourse analysis vs. conversation analysis
by Semenov Alexander 10 Jul '10

10 Jul '10

Hello everybody, I'm interested in qualitative text analysis of posts and comment treads in LiveJournal. I've found previous request on this topic in the aoir archieves, but it was 2 years ago ( http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017172.html) >From one of the responses ( http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017187.html) I've founded the following articles relevant to my interest: Harrison S (2004) 'Subverting conversational repair in computer-mediated communication: pseudo repair and refusal to repair in a hostile email discussion' in Mike Baynham, Alice Deignan and Goodith White (eds.) Applied Linguistics at the Interface, British Studies in Applied Linguistics Volume 19. London: BAAL Equinox, pp63-77 Harrison, S (2007) 'Transgressions, miscommunication and flames: problematic incidents in email discussions' in Mia Consalvo & Caroline Haythornthwaite, (Eds.) AoIR Internet Annual Volume 4, New York: Peter Lang, pp 105-117 Harrison, S (2008) 'Turn taking in email discussions' in Sigrid Kelsey and Kirk St.Amant (eds.) Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Information Science Reference Harrison S and Allton D (forthcoming - draft paper submitted) 'Apologies in email discussions' But I still have some questions: 1) Which method would you prefer for such kind of analysis: discourse analysis or conversational analysis? 2) Are there any other artcles about qualitative text analysis of blog posts and comment threads? Thanks in advance. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng

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Blizzard backtracks on real names
by Richard Forno 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Regarding real names in forums 07/09/2010 09:47:41 AM PDT http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25968987278&sid=1 Hello everyone, I'd like to take some time to speak with all of you regarding our desire to make the Blizzard forums a better place for players to discuss our games. We've been constantly monitoring the feedback you've given us, as well as internally discussing your concerns about the use of real names on our forums. As a result of those discussions, we've decided at this time that real names will not be required for posting on official Blizzard forums. It's important to note that we still remain committed to improving our forums. Our efforts are driven 100% by the desire to find ways to make our community areas more welcoming for players and encourage more constructive conversations about our games. We will still move forward with new forum features such as the ability to rate posts up or down, post highlighting based on rating, improved search functionality, and more. However, when we launch the new StarCraft II forums that include these new features, you will be posting by your StarCraft II Battle.net character name + character code, not your real name. The upgraded World of Warcraft forums with these new features will launch close to the release of Cataclysm, and also will not require your real name. I want to make sure it's clear that our plans for the forums are completely separate from our plans for the optional in-game Real ID system now live with World of Warcraft and launching soon with StarCraft II. We believe that the powerful communications functionality enabled by Real ID, such as cross-game and cross-realm chat, make Battle.net a great place for players to stay connected to real-life friends and family while playing Blizzard games. And of course, you'll still be able to keep your relationships at the anonymous, character level if you so choose when you communicate with other players in game. Over time, we will continue to evolve Real ID on Battle.net to add new and exciting functionality within our games for players who decide to use the feature. In closing, I want to point out that our connection with our community has always been and will always be extremely important to us. We strongly believe that Every Voice Matters, ( http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/about/mission.html ) and we feel fortunate to have a community that cares so passionately about our games. We will always appreciate the feedback and support of our players, which has been a key to Blizzard's success from the beginning. Mike Morhaime CEO & Cofounder Blizzard Entertainment

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Re: [Air-L] Text analysis of blog posts and comment threads: discourse analysis vs. conversation analysis (gus andrews)
by Theodore Plothe 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Gus, I look forward to reading you dissertation later, and I may take advantage of some of your references for a phenomena I have discover in my investigation of NFL Players and Twitter. I have a number of coda that use constructed dialogue, and thus will be implementing Gricean methods into my analysis. In a previous life as a linguist, I was a cognitive discourse analyst, most of research was in semantics through that scope. Now a communications nerd, I find myself still drawing upon linguistic principles and research. Until next time, Theo

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Text analysis of blog posts and comment threads: discourse analysis vs. conversation analysis
by André Brock 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Alexander, IMHO, i prefer discourse analysis for my own work on blogs/comments (i actually use a variant of Critical Discourse Analysis). I argue thusly because, like others have mentioned, you need to contextualize the discourses you examine - not only in terms of medium and medium-induced conventions - but also WRT culture, gender, nationality, sexuality, and race (there's more, but you already know that). While content analysis can, in fact, be contexualized to include sociopolitical influences on discourse, discourse analysis (to me) seems to be a much more robust interpretive technique for understanding what discoursants bring to bear as they discuss things near and dear to their heart. just my two cents... André Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:23:57 +0400 > From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex(a)googlemail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Text analysis of blog posts and comment threads: > discourse analysis vs. conversation analysis > > > Hello everybody, > I'm interested in qualitative text analysis of posts and comment treads in > LiveJournal. I've found previous request on this topic in the aoir > archieves, but it was 2 years ago ( > > http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017172.html > ). > > But I still have some questions: > > 1) Which method would you prefer for such kind of analysis: discourse > analysis or conversational analysis? > 2) Are there any other artcles about qualitative text analysis of blog > posts > and comment threads? > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > Alexander Semenov. > MA student > Faculty of Sociology > Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) > http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html > > Graduate Student in Sociology at > State University - Higher School of Economics > http://www.hse.ru/eng > > > -- Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Library and Information Science/POROI University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242

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Qualitative studies of blogs
by Kathryn Grafton 09 Jul '10

09 Jul '10

Hi Alex (and list ... this is also my first reply) - I am a PhD candidate in Language and Literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada (about to defend at the end of the month), and part of my work focuses on book blogs and online reading communities. I also just taught a course on blog studies. There are a number of qualitative studies of blog posts and comments from the perspective of new rhetorical genre theory. You might think of genre theory as a kind of discourse analysis. Here are some examples (many from a new edited collection, Genres in the Internet): Grafton, Kathryn. "Situating the Public Social Actions of Blog Posts." Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. Benjamins, 2009. 85-111. Grafton, Kathryn, and Elizabeth Maurer. "Engaging with and Arranging for Publics in Blog Genres." Linguistics and the Human Sciences 3.1 (2007): 47-66. Maurer, Elizabeth. "'Working Consensus' and the Rhetorical Situation: The Homeless Blog's Negotiation of Generic Evolution and Innovation." Genres in the Internet. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. Benjamins, 2009. McNeill, Laurie. "Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks: The Diary on the Internet." Biography 26.1 (2003): 24-47. McNeill, Laurie. "Brave new genre, or generic colonialism? Debates over ancestry in Internet diaries." The Internet and the Theory of Genre. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. Benjamins, 2009. 143-162. Miller, Carolyn, and Dawn Shepherd. "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog." Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs. Eds. Laura J Gurak, et al., 2004. Miller, Carolyn, and Dawn Shepherd. "Questions for Genre Theory from the Blogosphere." The Internet and the Theory of Genre. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. Benjamins, 2009. Puschmann, Cornelius. "Lies at Wal-Mart: Style and the subversion of genre in the Life at Wal-Mart blog." The Internet and the Theory of Genre. Eds. Janet Giltrow and Dieter Stein. Benjamins, 2009. 49-84. Rak, Julie. "The Digital Queer: Weblogs and Internet Identity." Biography 28.1 (2005): 166-82. And this is another qualitative study of posts (ethnography): Schoneboom, Abigail. "Diary of a Working Boy: Creative Resistance among Anonymous Workbloggers." Ethnography 8.4 (2007): 403-23. Finally, if you haven't seen it, you might also find the online collections, Into the Blogosphere, productive for your work: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ Best, Kathryn > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:23:57 +0400 > From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex(a)googlemail.com> > To: air-l(a)listserv.aoir.org > Subject: [Air-L] Text analysis of blog posts and comment threads: > discourse analysis vs. conversation analysis > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikdvKQOqUC2K3_WBIyu5x_FMlOVJHoHqAETbthm(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Hello everybody, > I'm interested in qualitative text analysis of posts and comment treads in > LiveJournal. I've found previous request on this topic in the aoir > archieves, but it was 2 years ago ( > http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017172.html) > >From one of the responses ( > http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017187.html) > I've founded the following articles relevant to my interest: > > Harrison S (2004) 'Subverting conversational repair in computer-mediated > communication: pseudo repair and refusal to repair in a hostile email > discussion' in Mike Baynham, Alice Deignan and Goodith White (eds.) > Applied Linguistics at the Interface, British Studies in Applied > Linguistics Volume 19. London: BAAL Equinox, pp63-77 > > Harrison, S (2007) 'Transgressions, miscommunication and flames: > problematic incidents in email discussions' in Mia Consalvo & Caroline > Haythornthwaite, (Eds.) AoIR Internet Annual Volume 4, New York: Peter > Lang, pp 105-117 > > Harrison, S (2008) 'Turn taking in email discussions' in Sigrid Kelsey > and Kirk St.Amant (eds.) Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated > Communication. Hershey, Pennsylvania: Information Science Reference > > Harrison S and Allton D (forthcoming - draft paper submitted) 'Apologies > in email discussions' > > But I still have some questions: > > 1) Which method would you prefer for such kind of analysis: discourse > analysis or conversational analysis? > 2) Are there any other artcles about qualitative text analysis of blog posts > and comment threads? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > Alexander Semenov. > MA student > Faculty of Sociology > Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) > http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html > > Graduate Student in Sociology at > State University - Higher School of Economics > http://www.hse.ru/eng > -- Kathryn Grafton grafton(a)interchange.ubc.ca ><><><><><><><><>>> The very word "genre" sticks out in an English sentence as the unpronounceable and alien thing it is. -- Northrop Frye

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