L597 - Topics in Library and Information Science:

Content Analysis for the World Wide Web

 

           

Semester:

Fall 2006

Instructor:

Susan Herring

Time:

Monday 1-3:45 p.m.

Office:

LI 037

Place:

LI 031

Phone:

(812) 856-4919 (voice mail)

Section:

25581

Email:  

herring @ indiana.edu

Instructor's Office Hours: Monday 4-5:30 p.m. and by appointment

Class listserv list: caweb06-l @ indiana.edu

Class wiki:  https://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/pmwiki.php

 

Required Readings:

Most of the readings for this course are available on the web (live links are included in this syllabus). The others will be on ereserves.

 

1. Course Description

Content Analysis is a well-established social science approach to analyzing meaning and structure in written documents; it can also be used to analyze images and sound. The World Wide Web is a multimodal, networked means of document delivery that is one of the most important sources of information in the world today.

In this course, you will learn about and apply Content Analysis methods, broadly construed, to diverse types of information communicated through HTML documents on the Web, including textual and graphical content, interactivity features, and links.[1] The methods, which are both qualitative and quantitative, can be used to address issues of genre, aesthetics, usability, "stickiness," credibility, persuasion, bias and cultural differences associated with the presentation of information on the Web. In contrast to the prescriptive approach of most human-computer interaction and Web design courses, which evaluate Web sites as "good" or "bad" and seek to create "good" ones, this course is descriptive in focus, providing tools to understand how different site designs and content communicate socially-nuanced meaning.

 

The course is structured around presentation of methods and hands-on Web data analysis. Each student selects a Web site or sites for analysis, according to their interests. For example, students with interests in a particular content domain (e-commerce, online instruction, news, politics, health information, gender issues, performance/exhibition, etc.) or Web genres (blogs, wikis, online dating sites, music downloading sites, personal home pages, etc.) may focus on them in their choice of data for analysis. After each method is presented in class through the readings and lectures, students apply it to their data. The students' findings are then shared with the class through oral presentations, and written up in short reports. At the end of the semester, students write an original research paper describing a Web genre or other collection of sites of their choice. As relatively little research of this type has been carried out so far, it is likely that each student project will create new knowledge about the Web. If it is well done, your research in this course may lead to opportunities for conference presentation or publication.

 

Students are expected to have experience accessing the World Wide Web, including using search engines such as Google. No previous knowledge of Content Analysis is required. Students do not create Web sites as part of this course; rather, the focus is on creating knowledge about the Web through descriptive empirical research. This knowledge, in turn, may have implications for Web design and/or content development that extend beyond the course.

 

2.   Course Objectives

As a result of completing this course, students should gain:

 

¥   A critical perspective (in the positive sense) on the Web as a communication medium.

¥   Practical skills in applying and interpreting the results of Content Analysis methods.

¥   Nuanced understandings of Web content that can be used to inform decisions about content development, site design, evaluation and use.

 

3.   Student Requirements

 

Readings: Students are expected to read the assigned readings before each scheduled class meeting.

 

Website analysis. Each student will select a website (or sites) for the purpose of analysis throughout the course. The sites should contain content that the student finds personally interesting and/or that relates to their professional goals. These data will be used to train the student in applying Content Analysis methods. They may also be used, supplemented with additional data, for the final research paper.

 

Reports. The results of applying the methods introduced in the course to the selected data will be presented in four oral and four written reports, where the written reports are on the same topics as the oral reports. The oral reports should be brief (5 minutes) and may be supported with simple PowerPoint displays and live internet demonstrations. (A good rule of thumb is one PowerPoint slide per minute of presentation time.) The written reports should record the findings presented in the oral reports, incorporating feedback from the class and the instructor, concisely and clearly (3-4 pages, excluding appendices). Guidelines for each report will be made available one week before the scheduled oral report presentation date.

 

Research paper. At the end of the semester, each student will write a 5000-7000 word research paper (excluding references and appendices) analyzing the content of a collection of websites defined by the student. This research may make use of the data already analyzed during the semester, or it may supplement or replace those data with new data (with the instructor's approval). A 500-word written proposal describing the Web genre, sites to be analyzed, methods to be employed, and including a minimum of 3-5 references is due in the 11th week of the semester. At the end of the semester, the results of each student's research will be presented to the class in a formal (conference-style) oral presentation (approx. 15 minutes, depending on how many students are enrolled in the course). The written paper should follow the formal conventions for a publishable-quality research article, including footnotes and citations of scholarly work in APA (American Psychological Association) style. (See course bibliography for examples of APA reference style.)

 

Wiki. There is a wiki for this course. This is an experiment, and it is expected that uses of the wiki will evolve dynamically over the semester. Course announcements will be posted there, as well as guidelines for reports and the final paper. There is also a discussion space, the additional pages can be created for any course-related purpose. Active contribution to the wiki is encouraged.


Listserv list.
There is a listserv list for this course. Students are expected to check their email at least twice between class meetings, including the morning before class for last-minute announcements and reminders. Interactive participation on the list is encouraged.


4.   Grading

 

Your grade for the course will be calculated as follows:

 

Participation
Oral reports (3%+4%+4%+4%)

15%
15%

Written reports (6%+8%+8%+8%)

30%

Oral presentation of term paper research

10%

Term paper

30%

Total:

100%

                                                                                                                       

Grading policy:

 

¥     A late written report will be accepted once during the semester, no questions asked, provided it is turned in two days before the next class meeting, to allow me time to grade it. I reserve the right to subtract one-third of a letter grade for each day a report is late beyond the due date or this one-time extension.

 

¥     Oral reports and participation will be graded with a check mark for each report/class meeting, to indicate that the requirement was met. Participation means being willing and prepared to speak intelligently in class about the topics under discussion, as well as participation in the online spaces for the course (wiki and discussion list). (Note: this does NOT necessarily mean speaking a lot--you may be penalized if you habitually dominate discussions.) In order to be able to speak intelligently about a topic, you will need to have done the readings for that topic before class. You will also need to be physically present and alert in class. Participation cannot be made up if you miss a class.

 

¥     The written reports and the term paper will be assigned letter grades (A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, etc.). Generally speaking, an A denotes 'outstanding' work, a B is 'good', and a C is 'average' (but below the level expected for graduate-level work).

 

¥     The written reports will be graded on completeness and accuracy of application of the methods. An 'A' quality written report addresses all the questions in the guidelines and applies the methods accurately and insightfully to the data.

     

¥     The oral presentation of the final research project will be graded primarily on form: how well it is organized, how informative it is, and how clearly and professionally it communicates to the audience (i.e., the rest of the class). An 'A' quality oral report conveys an appropriate amount of information given the time allotted for presentation, is presented in a straightforward and concise manner, and is logically organized (following the schema: identification and motivation of the choice of Web genre, brief background on genre, data selected and methods of analysis, findings, and some interpretation of the findings). Visual displays are strongly encouraged.

 

¥     The final paper will be graded on content--motivation of the choice of Web data, appropriateness of the data selection procedures, accuracy of the description and application of the methods, plausibility of the interpretations--and form--organization, clarity and quality of written expression, and appropriate use of scholarly conventions such as citations and footnotes. An 'A' quality term paper motivates the research topic, makes appropriate use of sampling and analytical techniques, and interprets the findings thoughtfully, in addition to being well-organized and clearly and professionally written. Some visual representations (e.g., screen shots) should be included of the content of the analyzed Web sites.

 

Note:  Learning is a collaborative enterprise. However, plagiarism, copyright infringement, and other types of academic dishonesty will NOT be tolerated. As a rule of thumb, when in doubt, cite the source!

 

5.   Course Schedule (subject to change with advance notice)

 

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Week 1 (8/28/06):       Introduction to Content Analysis. Selecting websites to analyze for this course.

 

Read:  Bauer, M. (2000). Classical content analysis: A review. In M. Bauer & G. Gaskell (eds.), Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound (pp. 131-151). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (on e-reserves)


Berners-Lee, T. (1996). The World Wide Web: Past, present and future. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1996/ppf.html

 

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Week 2 (9/4/06):         Web archives. Methodological issues in analyzing the Web.

 

            1st oral report: Select and describe a website of the type you would like to analyze in this course.

 

Read:   Lyman, P. & Kahle, B. (1998). Archiving digital cultural artifacts: Organizing an agenda for action. D-Lib Magazine. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july98/07lyman.html


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Schneider, S. M., & Foot, K. A. (2004). The Web as an object of study. New Media & Society, 6
(1), 114-122. http://faculty.washington.edu/kfoot/Publications/Web-as-Object-of-Study.pdf

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Gerbic, P., & Stacey, E. (2005). A purposive approach to content analysis: Designing analytical frameworks. Internet and Higher Education, 8, 45–59. [Available from wiki]
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McMillan, S. J. (2000). The microscope and the moving target: The challenge of applying content analysis to the World Wide Web. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77
(1), 80-98. http://web.utk.edu/~sjmcmill/Research/research.htm


Herring, S. C. (2004). Content analysis for new media: Rethinking the paradigm. In: New Research for New Media: Innovative Research Methodologies Symposium Working Papers and Readings (pp. 47-66). Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communication.  http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/newmedia.pdf

                       

            Hands-on: Check out the history of 2 webpages on the Wayback Machine: http://archive.org. How has web design evolved in the past decade?

 

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Week 3 (9/11/06):       Methodological issues (cont.). Recent published examples of Content Analysis of CMC and the web.

 

Read (select any three; post comments on their methodology on the wiki. Do they meet McMillan's criteria for traditional CA?)


Heckman, R., & Annabi, H. (2005). A content analytic comparison of learning processes in online and face-to-face case study discussions. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 7. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/heckman.html [interactive CMC]


Jarvis, S., & Wilkerson, K. (2005). Congress on the Internet: Messages on the homepages of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1996 and 2001. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2), article 9. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue2/jarvis.html

Rains, S. A., & Young, A. M. (2006). A sign of the times: An analysis of organizational members' email signatures. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(4), article 8. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/rains.html [interactive CMC]


Schultz, T. (1999). Interactive options in online journalism: A content analysis of 100 U.S. newspapers. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 5(1). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol5/issue1/schultz.html

Singh, N., & Baack, D. W. (2004). Web site adaptation: A cross-cultural comparison of U.S. and Mexican Web sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 9(4). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol9/issue4/singh_baack.html

Waseleski, C. (2006). Gender and the use of exclamation points in computer-mediated communication: An analysis of exclamations posted to two electronic discussion lists. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(4), article 6. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/waseleski.html [interactive CMC]


Young, J., & Foot, K. (2005). Corporate e-cruiting: The construction of work in Fortune 500 recruiting Web sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 3. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/young.html

Zhou, X. (2004). E-government in China: A content analysis of national and provincial Web sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 9(4). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol9/issue4/zhou.html


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Week 4 (9/18/06):       Web genres and Content Analysis.


            1st written report due: Descriptive characterization of a website

Read:  Crowston, K., & Williams, M. (2000). Reproduced and emergent genres of communication on the World-Wide Web. The Information Society,16(3), 201-216. http://crowston.syr.edu/papers/Webgenres.html


Bates, M. J., & Lu, S. (1997). An exploratory profile of personal home pages: Content, design, metaphors. Online and CDROM Review, 21(6), 331-340.


Herring, S. C., Scheidt, L. A., Bonus, S., & Wright, E. (2004). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. Proceedings of the 37th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS
-37). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society Press. http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc

Emigh, W., & Herring, S. C. (2005). Collaborative authoring on the Web: A genre analysis of online encyclopedias. Proceedings of the
38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/wiki.pdf


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Week 5 (9/25/06):       Aesthetics and usability. Explicit and implicit values underlying "good" website design.

 

            2nd oral report: Select 5-6 websites of the same genre and identify the features that characterize that genre

 

            Read:  Nielsen, J. (2004). Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design and (1999). Ten Good Deeds in Web Design. (Short.)


            Flanders, V. (2006). Web Pages that Suck website. http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/suckframe.htm. (Browse the site.)


Ivory, M. Y. & Megraw, R. (2005). Evolution of web site design patterns. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 23 (4), 463-497.  http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/1100000/1095876/p463-ivory.pdf?key1=1095876&key2=0116966511&coll=&dl=ACM&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618


Moss, G., Gunn, R., & Heller, J. (2005). Some men like it black, some women like it pink: Consumer implications of differences in male and female
website design. Journal of Consumer Behavior. http://cdr.esg.fr/images/pages/cr20.pdf


Sullivan, P. (2000). Practicing safe visual rhetoric on the web. http://austen.english.purdue.edu/handa.html

 

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Week 6 (10/2/06):       Assessing credibility of website content. What makes a website "trustworthy"?

 

2nd written report due: Genre analysis

 

Read:   Fogg, B. J., Soohoo, C. Danielson, D., Marabel, L., Stanford, J., & Tauber, E. (2002). How do people evaluate a web site's credibility? http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/dynamic/web-credibility-report-evaluate.cfm 


Hong, T. (2006). The influence of structural and message features on website credibility. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57, 114-127.


Flanagin, A. J., & Metzger, M. J. (2003).  The perceived credibility of personal Web page information as influenced by the sex of the source. Computers in Human Behavior, 19, 683-701. http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/publications/flanagin/Flanagin%20%20Metzger%202003%20(CiHB).pdf

 

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Week 7 (10/9/06):   Interactivity. What makes a website "sticky" and dynamic?


Read:  (Choose any four)
Ha, L., & James, E. L. (1998). Interactivity reexamined: A baseline analysis of early business web sites. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media
, 42(4), 457-474.

 

Chen, K., & Sockel, H. (2004). The impact of interactivity on business website visibility. International journal of Web Engineering and Technology, 1(2), 202–217.


Massey, B. L., & Levy, M. R. (1999). Interactivity, online journalism, and English-language web newspapers in Asia. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
, 76(1), 138-151.


Trammell, K. D., Williams, A. P., Postelnicu, M., & Landreville, K. D. (2006). Evolution of online campaigning: Increasing interactivity in candidate Web sites and blogs through text and technical features. Mass Communication and Society, 9 (1), 21-44. http://blogresearch.com/articles/TRAMMELL%20ET%20AL%202006%20-%20Evolution%20of%20Online%20Campaigning%20Increasing%20Interactivity%20in%20Candidate%20Web%20Sites%20and%20Blogs%20Through%20Text%20and%20Technical%20Features.pdf#search=%22%22Trammell%22%20%22Evolution%20*%20Online%20Campaigning%22%22

 

Chou, C. (2003). Interactivity and interactive functions in web-based learning systems: A technical framework for designers. British Journal of
Educational Technology, 34(3),265-279.

               

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Week 8 (10/16/06):     Analyzing images on the Web.

 

  3rd oral report: Design a content analysis study with a research question and a coding scheme

 

Read:  Bell, P. (2001). Content analysis of visual images. In T. van Leeuwen & C. Jewitt (eds.), Handbook of Visual Analysis (pp. 10-34). London: Sage.

 

Würtz, E. (2005). A cross-cultural analysis of websites from high-context cultures and low-context cultures. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 13. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/wuertz.html

Scheidt, L., & Wright, E. (2004). Common visual design elements of weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/common_visual.html


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Week 9 (10/23/06):     Analyzing images on the Web. (cont.)


             3rd written report due: Study design


Read:  van Leeuwen, T. (2001). Semiotics and iconography. In T. van Leeuwen & C. Jewitt (eds.), Handbook of Visual Analysis (pp. 92-118). London: Sage.


Schmidt-Isler, S. (2000). The language of digital genres. A semiotic investigation of style and iconology on the World Wide Web. Proceedings of the 33rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
. Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://www.computer.org/proceedings/hicss/0493/04933/04933012.pdf


Lambiase, J. (2003).  Codes of online sexuality: Celebrity, gender and commerce on the web. Sexuality & Culture, 7(3).


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Week 10 (10/30/06):     Rhetoric and ideology.


Read:  Killian, C. (2001). Effective web writing. http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/2001/02/kilian/


Marschall, D. (2002). Ideological discourses in the making of Internet career sites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 7(4). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol7/issue4/marschall.html


Fowler, R. (1991). 'Analytical tools: Critical linguistics' and 'Terms of abuse and of endearment.' Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press
(pp. 66-90; 110-119). London: Routledge.


Kutz, D., & Herring, S. C. (2005). Micro-longitudinal analysis of Web news updates. Proceedings of the 38th Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press. http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/news.pdf


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Week 11 (11/6/06):      Culture and 'culturability'.


            4th oral report: Code a sample of your data and summarize using descriptive statistics

Read:  Barber, W., & Badre, A. (1998). Culturability: The merging of culture and usability. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Human Factors and the Web, June. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/albert.badre/abstracts.html

 

Robbins, S. S., & Stylianou, A. C. (2001). A study of cultural differences in global corporate Web sites. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 42, 3-9.


Callahan, E. (2005). Cultural similarities and differences in the design of university websites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 12. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/callahan.html

 

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Week 12 (11/13/06):     Hypertextuality and link analysis.


            4th written report due: Coding and quantification

Read:  Kirschenbaum, M. (2000). Hypertext. In T. Swiss (Ed.), Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web (pp. 120-137). NY and London: New York University Press.

 

Foot, K. A., Schneider, S. M., Dougherty, M., Xenos, M., & Larsen, E. (2003). Analyzing linking practices: Candidate sites in the 2002 U.S. electoral web sphere. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue4/foot.html

 

Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analyses of the World Wide Web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue4/park.html


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Week 13 (11/20/06):   Web 2.0: Trends and future directions. Challenges for Content Analysis.


Read:   O'Reilly, T. (2005). What is Web 2.0? Design patterns and business models for the next generation of software. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html


Hammond, T., Hannay, T., Lund, B., & Scott, J. (2005). Social bookmarking tools (I): A general review. D-Lib Magazine, 11(4). http://www.dlib.org//dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html


Wagner, C. (2004). Wiki: A technology for conversational knowledge management and group collaboration. Communications of the AIS, 13, article 19, pp. 256-289. http://e-learning.pbwiki.com/f/CAIS%20Article%202004%20published.pdf

 

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Week 14 (11/27/06):  
Oral presentations of term paper research.  

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Week 15 (12/4/06):     Oral presentations of term paper research.  


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Week 16 (12/11/06):   Written term paper due by 5 p.m. on Monday, December 11.


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Bibliography (references about the web, content analysis studies of the web, and related methods of web analysis)

 

Aigrain, D., Zhang, H., Petkovic, D. (1996). Content-based representation and retrieval of visual media: A state of the art review. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 3, 178-202.


Alloro, G., Casilli, C., Taningher, M., & Ugolini, D. (1998). Electronic biomedical journals: How they appear and what they offer. European Journal of Cancer
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Argamon, S., Koppel, M., Fine, J., & Shimoni, A.R. (2003). Gender, genre, and writing style in formal written texts. Text, 23 (3). http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~koppel/papers/male-female-text-final.pdf

 

Arms, W., Adkins, R., Ammen, C., & Hayes, A. (2001). Collecting and Preserving the Web: The MINERVA Prototype. RLG DigiNews, 5 (2). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-2.html

 

Arnold, J., & Miller, H. (1999). Gender and web home pages. http://ess.ntu.ac.uk/miller/cyberpsych/cal99.htm

 

Arnold, J., & Miller, H. (2000). Same old gender plot? Women academics' identities on the web. http://ess.ntu.ac.uk/miller/cyberpsych/gendplot.htm

 

Arvidson, A., Persson, K., & Mannerheim, J. (2000). The Kulturarw3 project - The Royal Swedish Web Archiw3e - An example of "complete" collection of web pages. In Proceedings of the 66th IFLA Council and General Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, August 13-18, 2000.

 http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla66/papers/154-157e.htm

 

Barber, W., & Badre, A. (1998). Culturability: The merging of culture and usability. Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Human Factors and the Web, June. http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/albert.badre/abstracts.html

 

Bar-Ilan, J. (2000). The  Web as an information source on informetrics? A content analysis. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 51(5), 432-443.


Bates, M.J., & Lu, S. (1997). An exploratory profile of personal home pages: Content, design, metaphors. Online and CDROM Review
, 21 (6): 331-340.

 

Bauer, C., & Scharl, A. (2000). Quantitative evaluation of web site content and structure. Internet Research: Electronic Networking Applications and Policy, 10: 31-43.

 

Bauer, M. (2000). Classical content analysis: A review. In M. Bauer & G. Gaskell (eds.), Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound (pp. 131-151). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

 

Bell, A. (1993). Telling stories. In D. Graddol & O. Boyd-Barrett (eds.), Media Texts: Authors and Readers (pp. 100-118). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd.

 

Bell, A. (1998). The discourse structure of news stories. In A. Bell & P. Garrett (eds.), Approaches to Media Discourse (pp. 64-104). Oxford: Blackwell.

 

Bell, P. (2001). Content analysis of visual images. In T. van Leeuwen & C. Jewitt (eds.), Handbook of Visual Analysis (pp. 10-34). London: Sage.

 

Benoit, W. J., & Benoit, P. J. (2000). The Virtual Campaign: Presidential Primary Websites in Campaign 2000. American Communication Journal, 3 (3). http://acjournal.org/holdings/vol3/Iss3/curtain.html#4

 

Benway, J.P. & Lane, D. (1998). Banner Blindness: Web Searchers Often Miss "Obvious" Links. Internetworking, 1 (3).

http://www.internettg.org/newsletter/dec98/banner_blindness.html

 

Berelson, B. (1952). Content Analysis in Communication Research. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.

 

Berners-Lee, T. (1996). The World Wide Web: Past, present and future. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1996/ppf.html

 

Berners-Lee, T. (2000). Weaving the Web. The past, present and future of the World Wide Web by its inventor. London: Orion Business Books.

 

Blanchard, A. (2004). Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project. In: Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs, L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, and J. Reyman (Eds.). http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere

 

Bretan, I.; Dewe, J.; Hallberg, A.; Wolkert, N.; & Karlgren, J. (1997). Web-specific genre visualization. Proc. of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Science, Jan.

 

Bucy, E., Lang, A., Potter, R. & Grabe, M.E. (1999). Formal features of cyberspace: Relationships between web page complexity and site traffic. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 50: 1246-1256.

 

Burbules, N. (1997). Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and critical literacy. In Page to Screen: Taking Literacy Into the Electronic Era, Ilana Snyder, ed. New South Wales: Allen and Unwin. http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/ncb/papers/rhetorics.html

 

Burbules, N., & Callister, T.A. Jr. (Forthcoming). Who lives here? Access to and credibility within cyberspace. To appear in C. Bigum, C. Lanshear, et al. (eds.), Digital Rhetorics: New Technologies, Literacy, and Learning - Current Practices and New Directions. Canberra: Department of Employment, Education, Training, and Youth Affairs/Brisbane, Queensland University of Technology. http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/ncb/papers/who_lives_here.html

 

Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. Atlantic Monthly (July).

 

Cailliau, R. (1995). A little history of the World Wide Web. http://www.w3.org/History.html

 

Callahan, E. (2005). Cultural similarities and differences in the design of university websites. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(1), article 12. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue1/callahan.html


Chandler, D. (1998). Personal homepages and the construction of identities on the Web. http://www.aber.ac.uk/~dgc/webident.html.

 

Cheung, C. (2000). A home on the Web: Presentations of self on personal homepages. In D. Gauntlett (Ed.), Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age (pp. 43-51). London: Arnold.

 

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[1] This course does not address reciprocally interactive text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC) such as takes place in webboards, chat spaces, or via e-mail, instant messaging (IM), or short messaging service on mobile phones (SMS). Methods for analyzing content of that type are taught in L665: Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis.