As part of a large study on Internet use we are surveying people on what websites they access most regularly. For coding purposes these websites need to be categorised and we are wishing to establish if there is an existing classification system already in use by researchers for a question of this nature. Philippa Smith Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND
Hello Philippa, Unfortunately I can't be of much help, though with my research I will need to tackle this issue as well. If you get any responses about this, would you mind forwarding them along? I'll keep you apprised if I find anything that might be of help. Thanks! Sam On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> wrote:
As part of a large study on Internet use we are surveying people on what websites they access most regularly. For coding purposes these websites need to be categorised and we are wishing to establish if there is an existing classification system already in use by researchers for a question of this nature.
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Several people have undertaken web site and blog content coding using the Coding Analysis Toolkit, or CAT: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm We are close to launching a beta test of a blog scraping tool that prepares data automatically for intake to the CAT system. ~Stu On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Philippa Smith <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> wrote:
As part of a large study on Internet use we are surveying people on what websites they access most regularly. For coding purposes these websites need to be categorised and we are wishing to establish if there is an existing classification system already in use by researchers for a question of this nature.
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I think this is a good way of approaching this coding. It seems like epistemology of the web. I wonder if simply the URL is not enough. I would also suggest you somehow base it on an existing XML schema or that such a schema be developed for AoIR. I wonder if there is some ISO standard? Can not edu com org an country codes work in some way? I use these in my ability to assess web page quality for use in my studies. On 6-Apr-08, at 8:26 PM, Philippa Smith wrote:
As part of a large study on Internet use we are surveying people on what websites they access most regularly. For coding purposes these websites need to be categorised and we are wishing to establish if there is an existing classification system already in use by researchers for a question of this nature.
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Dear Philippa: I am not aware of a coding system for categorizing websites **generally**, but there are several that have been used to code various features of websites (e.g., interactive functions, information provision, action features). You may wish to consult the methodology chapter and appendix in the following book, and the related publication website. Nick Jankowski Dougherty, M., & Foot, K. A. (2007). The Internet and Elections Project research design. In Rl Kluver, N. W. Jankowski, K. A. Foot & S. M. Schneider (eds.), The Internet and eational elections; A comparative study of web campaigning, pp. 16-26. London: Routledge. http://ipa.tamu.edu/projects/elections.asp ************************************************************************************************* Nicholas W. Jankowski Visiting Fellow Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam, NL www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl ************************************************************************************************* At 02:26 7-4-2008, you wrote:
As part of a large study on Internet use we are surveying people on what websites they access most regularly. For coding purposes these websites need to be categorised and we are wishing to establish if there is an existing classification system already in use by researchers for a question of this nature.
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Thank you to all who responded to my inquiry about classification/coding systems for websites. The following is a summary of the replies which I hope will be of use to others. Kind regards Philippa Institute of Culture, Discourse & Communication AUT University Auckland NEW ZEALAND Several people have undertaken web site and blog content coding using the Coding Analysis Toolkit, or CAT: http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm We are close to launching a beta test of a blog scraping tool that prepares data automatically for intake to the CAT system. ~Stu I think this is a good way of approaching this coding. It seems like epistemology of the web. I wonder if simply the URL is not enough. I would also suggest you somehow base it on an existing XML schema or that such a schema be developed for AoIR. I wonder if there is some ISO standard? Can not edu com org an country codes work in some way? I use these in my ability to assess web page quality for use in my studies. I am not aware of a coding system for categorizing websites **generally**, but there are several that have been used to code various features of websites (e.g., interactive functions, information provision, action features). You may wish to consult the methodology chapter and appendix in the following book, and the related publication website. Nick Jankowski Dougherty, M., & Foot, K. A. (2007). The Internet and Elections Project research design. In Rl Kluver, N. W. Jankowski, K. A. Foot & S. M. Schneider (eds.), The Internet and eational elections; A comparative study of web campaigning, pp. 16-26. London: Routledge. http://ipa.tamu.edu/projects/elections.asp I noticed your post on air-l, and wanted to mention a coding scheme that I and my coauthor developed for a 2005 article, http:// www.modinet.dk/pdf/antologier/InternetDemocracyModinet.pdf Feel free to share it on list if you plan to collect and forward references. Best, Klaus. _______________________________________ Klaus Bruhn Jensen Professor, dr.phil. Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication Film and Media Studies Section University of Copenhagen Njalsgade 80 DK-2300 Copenhagen S Denmark
"Philippa Smith" <philippa.smith@aut.ac.nz> 7/04/2008 12:26 p.m. >>> As part of a large study on Internet use we are surveying people on what websites they access most regularly. For coding purposes these websites need to be categorised and we are wishing to establish if there is an existing classification system already in use by researchers for a question of this nature.
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