Hi all, I am examining the way in which the British MPs are constructing their profile though their web pages and I welcome any suggestions re the methodology towards the study of web pages in general. Any suggestions mostly welcome! Thank you Kalliopi Dr Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou Dept. of Politics and IR University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NX Kent, U.K. email: K.Kyriakopoulou@kent.ac.uk K.Kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou PhD cand. Dept.of Politics and IR University of Kent at Canterbury U.K. email: k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com)
Hello, Kalliopi My suggestion can seem a little amateurish and non-professional but anyway I'm sure that here will be a lot of useful advices =). When I was doing a project on the analysis of marketing strategies of several companies in the web, I suggested the following thing: to look at the main menu and check, which items will be on the first level of the menu, which on the second, on the third etc. For example, one company's menu may include such items as "partners, clients, services etc." and the others "our company, jobs, customers". Also we analysed the matherials, published on the sites. For example, one company had a very large amount of financial reports for each quarter, year etc, other - had a lot of information about their products, another one had a separate pages for each of its leaders, directors etc. Also you can make discourse analysis of thir mission statement and other formal attributes of serious company. It can be easily formalised and quantified by simple word counting, word frequensies, KWIC or any other content analysis technique. What I suggested abowe is a mere improvisation - I'm sure, that you'll receive many replies with references to proper articles, research papers with robust methodological part etc. That was just my thoughts and experience - nothing more, so don't judge it strictly =). By the way, I got my inspiration for that project from Roland Barthes' "Rhetoric of the Image". Amazing text! Best wishes. Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:51:36 +0400, KALLIOPI KYRIAKOPOULOU <k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi all, I am examining the way in which the British MPs are constructing their profile though their web pages and I welcome any suggestions re the methodology towards the study of web pages in general. Any suggestions mostly welcome! Thank you Kalliopi Dr Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou Dept. of Politics and IR University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NX Kent, U.K. email: K.Kyriakopoulou@kent.ac.uk K.Kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com
Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou PhD cand. Dept.of Politics and IR University of Kent at Canterbury U.K. email: k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com)
Kalliopi: Several of the articles in a theme issue of Information Polity (vol. 10, No. 3 &4, 2005) about the WWW and the 2004 European Parliament election provide details and references on studying electoral sites. A more encompassing treatment, entitled The Internet and National Elections, edited by Randy Kluver, Nicholas Jankowsk, Kirsten Foot and Steve Schneider, is scheduled for publication by Routledge in a few weeks (4 May). The methodology chapter in particular will point you in the direction of relevant literature. Best, Nick Jankowski At 18:51 12-4-2007, you wrote:
Hi all,
I am examining the way in which the British MPs are constructing their profile though their web pages and I welcome any suggestions re the methodology towards the study of web pages in general.
Any suggestions mostly welcome!
Thank you
Kalliopi
Dr Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou Dept. of Politics and IR University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NX Kent, U.K.
email: K.Kyriakopoulou@kent.ac.uk K.Kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com
Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou PhD cand. Dept.of Politics and IR University of Kent at Canterbury U.K. email: k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com) _______________________________________________ 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/
Dear Kalliopi - Web pages usually come from practices that have been underway in print for some time. Therefore you might want to mention some references on the theory on constructing oneself as an individual of importance in print: Miller, N., & Morgan, D. 1993. Called to account: The CV as an autobiographical practice. Sociology, 27(1), 133-143. Weintraub, K. 1978. The value of the individual: Self and circumstance in autobiography. Chicago: Chicago University Press. There's also some interesting work in psychology on representation in personal web pages. Cheers, Denise etc. Cheers, Denise --- KALLIOPI KYRIAKOPOULOU <k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am examining the way in which the British MPs are constructing their profile though their web pages and I welcome any suggestions re the methodology towards the study of web pages in general.
Any suggestions mostly welcome!
Thank you
Kalliopi
Dr Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou Dept. of Politics and IR University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NX Kent, U.K.
email: K.Kyriakopoulou@kent.ac.uk K.Kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com
Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou PhD cand. Dept.of Politics and IR University of Kent at Canterbury U.K. email: k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com) _______________________________________________ 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/
Denise N. Rall, PhD Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/rsm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Hi Kalliopi, you might want to look at the work of Steve Ward and others, such as: Ward, Stephen, & Lusoli, Wainer (2005). 'From Weird to Wired': MPs, the Internet and Representative Politics in the UK. Journal of Legislative Studies, 11(1), pp. 57-81. you will find plenty more at their site: http://www.i-pol.org/ good luck, tobias KALLIOPI KYRIAKOPOULOU wrote:
Hi all,
I am examining the way in which the British MPs are constructing their profile though their web pages and I welcome any suggestions re the methodology towards the study of web pages in general.
Any suggestions mostly welcome!
Thank you
Kalliopi
Dr Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou Dept. of Politics and IR University of Kent Canterbury, CT2 7NX Kent, U.K.
email: K.Kyriakopoulou@kent.ac.uk K.Kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com
Kalliopi Kyriakopoulou PhD cand. Dept.of Politics and IR University of Kent at Canterbury U.K. email: k.kyriakopoulou@btinternet.com) _______________________________________________ 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/
-- Tobias Escher :: Oxford Internet Institute DPhil & Research Assistant :: University of Oxford tobias.escher@oii.ox.ac.uk :: 1 St Giles tel: +44 (0)1865 287210 :: Oxford OX1 3JS - UK fax: +44 (0)1865 287211 :: http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/escher/
participants (5)
-
Alexander Semenov -
Denise N. Rall -
Jankowski -
KALLIOPI KYRIAKOPOULOU -
Tobias Escher