[Air-L] Research on hypertext

[Denise N. Rall]

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
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