Dear Andrew, I think your student might find the following phd thesis working on website from a social semiotic perspective useful. Dr Djonov included quite extensive literature review on different approaches. Djonov, E. (2005). Analyzing the Organization of Information in Websites: From Hypermedia design to Systemic Functional Hypermedia Discourse Analysis. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of New South Wales, Sydney. It can be downloaded from http://arrow.unsw.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/unsworks:901 All the best to your students' research. Looking forward to reading her thesis. Regards! Yiqiong ZHANG Yiqiong PhD candidate @ Multimodal Analysis Lab Interactive & Digital Media Institute (IDMI) 9 Prince George's Park National University of Singapore Singapore 118408 http://www.multimodal-analysis-lab.org/ Department English Language & Literature Block AS5, 7 Arts Link Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National University of Singapore Singapore 117570 -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Herman Sent: Sunday, 18 April, 2010 4:20 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Web Site Analysis Methdology Colleagues I have a doctoral student who would like to do some comparative web site analysis in her dissertation. She is coming to this rather late in her doctoral work and I am looking for some overviews of different approaches, i.e hypertextual, semiotics, rhetorical, visual, links, etc. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated by the both of us. Thanks for your assistance in advance. AH Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor and Chairperson Department of Communication Studies Graduate Program in Cultural Analysis and Social Theory Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693 _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/