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