[Air-L] Coding websites

[Philippa Smith]

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 at 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.

Philippa Smith
Institute of Culture, Discourse and Communication
AUT University
Auckland
NEW ZEALAND
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