Dear colleagues, Is there anybody out there who knows about research on hyperlinks in web news outlets that goes beyond counting the number of hyperlinks? More precisely: content analysis of interlinked texts that gives a better understanding of the connection between the primary and linked texts, like answering question if the linked texts give the reader more knowledge and understanding of the news by using these hyperlinks. Best wishes Øystein Pedersen Dahlen Volda University College Norway
Have you checked the proceedings of the Hypertext conferences? It seems a likely place to find this sort of thing. On Nov 23, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Øystein Pedersen Dahlen wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Is there anybody out there who knows about research on hyperlinks in web news outlets that goes beyond counting the number of hyperlinks? More precisely: content analysis of interlinked texts that gives a better understanding of the connection between the primary and linked texts, like answering question if the linked texts give the reader more knowledge and understanding of the news by using these hyperlinks.
Best wishes Øystein Pedersen Dahlen Volda University College Norway
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This book may be of interest: http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297291 Here's the descriptive blurb: "Links" are among the most basic—and most unexamined—features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and the academy, The Hyperlinked Society addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of links change the way they approach their work, and how do these considerations in turn affect the ways that audiences consume news and entertainment? What role do economic and political considerations play in information producers' creation of links? How do links shape the size and scope of the public sphere in the digital age? Are hyperlinks "bridging" mechanisms that encourage people to see beyond their personal beliefs to a broader and more diverse world? Or do they simply reinforce existing bonds by encouraging people to ignore social and political perspectives that conflict with their existing interests and beliefs? Best, Kim On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
Have you checked the proceedings of the Hypertext conferences? It seems a likely place to find this sort of thing. On Nov 23, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Øystein Pedersen Dahlen wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Is there anybody out there who knows about research on hyperlinks in web news outlets that goes beyond counting the number of hyperlinks? More precisely: content analysis of interlinked texts that gives a better understanding of the connection between the primary and linked texts, like answering question if the linked texts give the reader more knowledge and understanding of the news by using these hyperlinks.
Best wishes Øystein Pedersen Dahlen Volda University College Norway
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Here is an article that might be helpful to you and provide a nice bibliography of other possible sources. Eveland, W.P., Marton, K, Seo, M.(Feb. 2004). Moving Beyond 'Just the Facts': The influence of online news content structure of public affairs knowledge. *Communication Research.* Available online: http://crx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/31/1/82 Abstract: *The increasing use of online news, particularly by young Americans, pointsto the importance of understanding what users learn from this form of news and whether features of online news encourage or discourage various types of learning. This experimental study demonstrates that online news that takes advantage of one of the key characteristics of the Web—the use of in-text hyperlinks—may actually discourage learning of the facts that make up many news stories. But this same linking structure apparently encourages those who commonly use the Web to have more densely interconnected knowledge structures for public affairs topics. However, those who rarely use the Webfor news do not gain such advantages and may even suffer disadvantages. These findings point to limitations in most past online news learning research, which has been limited to "just the facts" in its measurement of learning from the news. * Best, Jacqueline -- Jacqueline Vickery Co-Coordinating Editor, FlowTV.org Department of Radio-Television-Film University of Texas - Austin On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:55 AM, KMV <cuuixsilver@gmail.com> wrote:
This book may be of interest:
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=297291
Here's the descriptive blurb:
"Links" are among the most basic—and most unexamined—features of online life. Bringing together a prominent array of thinkers from industry and the academy, The Hyperlinked Society addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. How do media producers' considerations of links change the way they approach their work, and how do these considerations in turn affect the ways that audiences consume news and entertainment? What role do economic and political considerations play in information producers' creation of links? How do links shape the size and scope of the public sphere in the digital age? Are hyperlinks "bridging" mechanisms that encourage people to see beyond their personal beliefs to a broader and more diverse world? Or do they simply reinforce existing bonds by encouraging people to ignore social and political perspectives that conflict with their existing interests and beliefs?
Best,
Kim
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:39 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
Have you checked the proceedings of the Hypertext conferences? It seems a likely place to find this sort of thing. On Nov 23, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Øystein Pedersen Dahlen wrote:
Dear colleagues,
Is there anybody out there who knows about research on hyperlinks in web news outlets that goes beyond counting the number of hyperlinks? More precisely: content analysis of interlinked texts that gives a better understanding of the connection between the primary and linked texts, like answering question if the linked texts give the reader more knowledge and understanding of the news by using these hyperlinks.
Best wishes Øystein Pedersen Dahlen Volda University College Norway
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Dear Kim - There are a number of research centres that engage in these activities that you have described, among them, our colleagues Paul Wouters & Anne Beaulieu at the Virtual Knowledge Studio in the Netherlands. http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/ Also colleagues Kirstin Foot and Steven Schneider http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=18321 have recently focused on hypertext analysis in the context of US elections. Finally, Christine Hine has put together an excellent book on the topic: Hine, C., Ed. (2005). Virtual methods: Issues in social research on the Internet. Oxford, Berg Publishers. I have mentioned on this list previously (sorry for the repeats) that Nora Paul at the University of Minnesota has described a web-based textual analysis of online news in particular through her & her research partners' analysis of Digital Storytelling. http://www.inms.umn.edu/projects/view.asp?id=2 The last site might give you an important glimpse of a methodology that is not dependent on counting links. Cheers, Denise Cheers, Denise Denise N. Rall, PhD. Internationalisation Project Officer Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Office: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Presenter, Internet Research 9.0, 15-18 October 2008, Copenhagen, DK
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