Well for internet research methods as coursework, a place to begin is surely the Internet Studies Program at Curtin University Internet Studies program, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia http://smi.curtin.edu.au/NetStudies/index.cfm The Curtin program has a unit called Cyberanalytics which I believe is what you want. The capable director there is Matt Allen (the AoIR prez) so perhaps I should declare a conflict of interest! For short term workshop, this offering in Croatia might work out for you: http://workshop.websm.org/content.php?p1=181&p2=5&p3=133&id=133 although they are concentrating on survey data, the organizers are part of the well respected German team of scholars such as Ulf-Deitrich Reips and Michael Bosnjak (Department of Psychology II, University of Mannheim). Books: Nentwich, M. (2003). Cyberscience: Research in the age of the Internet. Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences Press. Thelwall, M. (2004). Link Analysis: An Information Science Approach. San Diego, Academic Press. Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, Ph.D. submitted, School of Environ. Science, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tuesdays: Room T2.12, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 or Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/index.html Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html