This combined genre and content analysis of websites, coming out next month, develops a typology of functionalities in terms of their discursive forms and anticipated social uses, and may be of interest in the present context, http://modinet.dk/pdf/antologier/InternetDemocracyModinet.pdf Comments appreciated - thanks, Klaus.
Message: 1 Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:08:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denise N. Rall" <denrall@yahoo.com> Subject: [Air-l] Re: content analysis of the web To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <20050718040818.5093.qmail@web30301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
My response is the same as Elizabeth's -
Focusing in on the language (text) means using more conventional CA methods
Looking at the website as a whole - well the only people that have generated tools for this that I know of are Noral Paul's team at the Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota. They had a prototype - an analysis tool for looking specifically at online newspapers and comparing them. . . this may be connected to their current project in digital storytelling.
Might be worth a look. http://www.inms.umn.edu/
POINT HERE is that the comparable units of the websites were each defined as elements, pulled into a qualitative database where the comparisons could be made. So each item on each webpage was selected by hand, tagged as an "element" type - etc. Then the elements could be compared from page to page.
QSR International NVivo 6 is an interesting analysis tool for text but don't think it will work on .html unless cut & copy into the database.
Cheers, Denise
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