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

[Semenov Alexander]

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