[Air-L] Need help: conversational analysis, threads, blogs?

[Sandra Harrison]

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 at coventry.ac.uk

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:03:17 -0400
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Subject: [Air-L] Need help: conversational analysis, threads, blogs?
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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

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