I guess the choice between conversational discourse analysis and other kinds would depend on what you are interested in in the data, a generic response for which I apologise in advance. Papers vaguely described as having used "discourse analysis", appear below. There are plenty of studies which report "content analysis" of text from discussion boards, I've dumped some of them below too. -- Natalya Godbold PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication) Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Technology, Sydney Kokkonen, R. (2009). "The fat child - a sign of 'bad' motherhood? An analysis of explanations for children's fatness on a Finnish website." *Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology* *19*(5): 336. Riley, S., K. Rodham, et al. (2009). "Doing weight: Pro-ana and recovery identities in cyberspace." *Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology * *19*(5): 348. Sharf, B. F. (1997). "Communicating Breast Cancer On-Line: Support and Empowerment on the Internet." *Women & Health* *26*(1): 65 - 84. some content analysis studies: Na, J.-C., T. T. Thet, et al. (2010). "Comparing sentiment expression in movie reviews from four online genres." *Online Information Review* *34*(2): 317. Nimrod, G. (2010). "Seniors' Online Communities: A Quantitative Content Analysis." *The Gerontologist* *50*(3): 382-392. Pfeil, U. and P. Zaphiris (2010). "Applying qualitative content analysis to study online support communities." *Universal Access in the Information Society* *9*(1): 1. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Semenov Alexander < semenoffalex@googlemail.com> wrote:
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
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