Following Alexander's note, I am a big fan of Krippendorff, especially his method of intercoder reliability testing. For his, and other methods you can check: http://www.temple.edu/sct/mmc/reliability/ followed up by: http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/krippendorff/dogs.html Best, Ewa ------------------------------ Ewa Callahan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communications Quinnipiac University 275 Mount Carmel Avenue Hamden, CT 06518 203-582-3470 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alexander Semenov Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:01 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Content Analysis for Web Discussion Boards I think, that the best book on content analysis is Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology by Klaus Krippendorff. Talking about discourse analysis of discussion boards - here is a course description, and syllabus, of Prof. Susan Herring: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/web.syll.06.html Funny coincidence - yesterday I sent the same link to my tutor =) I hope it will be helpful