Hi Gus, My PhD was on "The Discourse Structure of Email discussions" and involved both Conversation and discourse analysis of forum threads. I have published some papers which may be of interest to you: 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' If you would like copies of any of these, do email me directly. Sandra Dr Sandra Harrison Academic Co-ordinator Coventry University School of Art and Design Email s.harrison@coventry.ac.uk ------------------------------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:03:17 -0400 From: "gus andrews" <gus.andrews@gmail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Need help: conversational analysis, threads, blogs? To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <18fe74ae0809171003j51da5180sfaff7fc8598802e2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi everyone, I am a doctoral student at Teachers College doing research on the misunderstandings of blog visitors and their participation in comment threads, such as the ones I have been posting at www.gumbaby.com. I'm wondering if the AoIR community can help me with the following things: 1. I am specifically interested in conversational or discourse analyses of individual blogs' comment threads. Does anyone have a good bibliography on this topic, or can you recommend articles? Conversational or discourse analyses of forum comment threads and probably even of flame wars would also be helpful. 2. I am gathering comment threads like the ones at gumbaby.com, which follow this pattern: - Blogger posts on some random topic, usually about celebrities (i.e. "I went to see Maury Povich's TV show taping") or technical assistance ("Here's a funny story about trying to cancel an AOL account") - Commenters arrive and address the *celebrity* (i.e. "Dear Maury Povich, please help") or ask for technical assistance ("I do not want AOL anymore, please cancel my account"), when the blogger has no ability to help them with their request If you have seen comment threads like these, could you please send me a link to them? 3. If you've seen comment posts like these on your own blog, would you be willing to send along referrer logs for those pages? This would be a TREMENDOUS help; I'm having a hard time getting concrete evidence of how people arrive at threads like these. Thanks, everyone! Gillian "Gus" Andrews Doctoral Student, Communications in Education Teachers College, Columbia University www.gumbaby.com www.aftered.tv *********** -------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University.