for Susannah Stern and student: Web analytical models that are nonlinear - Models: I searched on this a while back. I came up with a series of mathematical models that were grouped under the term "webmetrics". However searching webmetrics via google today I didn't get good results. As you say the area is mostly quantitative. Steve Lawrence has pioneered some of this work. It was mathematical, but put me towards some good material. I don't know if these links are still working. http://www.neci.nec/com/~lawrence/papers.html bibliography filed under Lawrence, Steve If you are referring to analyzing the discourse on the web analytically, of course that's another thing altogether. My favorite folks working on internet discourse analysis (besides Foot & Schneider, of AoIR fame) are Nick Jankowski and Martine Van Selm, although there are many others. Cheers - Denise ===== Denise N. Rall, PhD student, School of Env. Science, Southern Cross Uni, Marker for Protected/Natural Area Management, BIO00244 Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Thursdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com