[Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?

[Caroline Haythornthwaite]

Check out this tool by Anatoliy Gruzd. We've been using it for analysis of online 
conversations and the extraction of social networks.   /Caroline

http://www3.isrl.illinois.edu/~agruzd2/icta_web/

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:16:20 -0400
>From: gus andrews <gus.andrews at gmail.com>  
>Subject: [Air-L] Visualization tool for conversations?  
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>My dissertation involves conversational analysis of the comment
>threads on blogs. I want to be able to visualize which commenters are
>responding to other commenters. Does anyone have suggestions of
>software to use? Ideally I'd like to find something where I can create
>visualizations as I code, dragging lines between one comment and
>another. (I realize the latter request is probably a pipe dream.)
>
>I've already talked to Warren Sack at UCSC about the tool he used for
>his dissertation, and at the moment it does not look as if it will
>work for me, for two reasons: 1) I need to better visualize the
>connection between threads in chronological order, and 2) it would
>take a lot of work (for him!) to massage my data into a format which
>his software could crunch.
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks!
>Gillian "Gus" Andrews
>Doctoral Candidate, Communications in Education
>Teachers College, Columbia University
>www.gumbaby.com
>www.youtube.com/user/themediashow
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Caroline Haythornthwaite
Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 501 East Daniel St., Champaign IL 61820
haythorn at illinois.edu OR haythorn at uiuc.edu