[Air-L] Text analysis of blog posts and comment threads: discourse analysis vs. conversation analysis

natalya godbold ngodbold at gmail.com
Thu Jul 8 19:20:57 PDT 2010


I guess the choice between conversational discourse analysis and other kinds
would depend on what you are interested in in the data, a generic response
for which I apologise in advance.  Papers vaguely described as having used
"discourse analysis", appear below.  There are plenty of studies which
report "content analysis" of text from discussion boards,   I've dumped some
of them below too.
-- 
Natalya Godbold
PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney




Kokkonen, R. (2009). "The fat child - a sign of 'bad' motherhood? An
analysis of explanations for children's fatness on a Finnish website." *Journal
of Community & Applied Social Psychology* *19*(5): 336.



Riley, S., K. Rodham, et al. (2009). "Doing weight: Pro-ana and recovery
identities in cyberspace." *Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
* *19*(5): 348.


Sharf, B. F. (1997). "Communicating Breast Cancer On-Line: Support and
Empowerment on the Internet." *Women & Health* *26*(1): 65 - 84.


some content analysis studies:



Na, J.-C., T. T. Thet, et al. (2010). "Comparing sentiment expression in
movie reviews from four online genres." *Online Information Review* *34*(2):
317.



Nimrod, G. (2010). "Seniors' Online Communities: A Quantitative Content
Analysis." *The Gerontologist* *50*(3): 382-392.


Pfeil, U. and P. Zaphiris (2010). "Applying qualitative content analysis to
study online support communities." *Universal Access in the Information
Society* *9*(1): 1.




On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Semenov Alexander <
semenoffalex at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> I'm interested in qualitative text analysis of posts and comment treads in
> LiveJournal. I've found previous request on this topic in the aoir
> archieves, but it was 2 years ago (
>
> http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017172.html
> ).
> >From one of the responses (
>
> http://listserv.aoir.org/htdig.cgi/air-l-aoir.org/2008-September/017187.html
> )
> I've founded the following articles relevant to my interest:
>
> 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'
>
> But I still have some questions:
>
> 1) Which method would you prefer for such kind of analysis: discourse
> analysis or conversational analysis?
> 2) Are there any other artcles about qualitative text analysis of blog
> posts
> and comment threads?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
> --
> Alexander Semenov.
> MA student
> Faculty of Sociology
> Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
> http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
>
> Graduate Student in Sociology at
> State University - Higher School of Economics
> http://www.hse.ru/eng
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