Content analysis of the World Wide Web: Opportunities and challenges

C Weare, WY Lin - Social science computer review, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines methodological issues for content analytic research of the World Wide
Web. The outline of content analysis as a systematic and quantitative scientific method for …

Content analysis: A flexible methodology

MD White, EE Marsh, EE Marsh, MD White - Library trends, 2006 - muse.jhu.edu
Content analysis is a highly flexible research method that has been widely used in library
and information science (LIS) studies with varying research goals and objectives. The …

[KNIHA][B] Advancing health literacy: A framework for understanding and action

C Zarcadoolas, A Pleasant, DS Greer - 2006 - books.google.com
Advancing Health Literacy addresses the crisis in health literacy in the United States and
around the world. This book thoroughly examines the critical role of literacy in public health …

Display time as implicit feedback: understanding task effects

D Kelly, NJ Belkin - Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM …, 2004 - dl.acm.org
Recent research has had some success using the length of time a user displays a document
in their web browser as implicit feedback for document preference. However, most studies …

A web crawler design for data mining

M Thelwall - Journal of Information Science, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
The content of the web has increasingly become a focus for academic research. Computer
programs are needed in order to conduct any large-scale processing of web pages …

Expressions of identity online: Prominent features and gender differences in adolescents' World Wide Web home pages

SR Stern - Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
Despite the popularity of World Wide Web home pages among adolescents, we know little
about their distinguishing features or utility. Accordingly, this article describes a content …

Extracting macroscopic information from web links

M Thelwall - Journal of the American Society for Information …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Much has been written about the potential and pitfalls of macroscopic Web‐based link
analysis, yet there have been no studies that have provided clear statistical evidence that …

Motivations for academic Web site interlinking: Evidence for the Web as a novel source of information on informal scholarly communication

D Wilkinson, G Harries, M Thelwall… - Journal of information …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
The need to understand authors' motivations for creating links between university web sites
is addressed by a survey of a random collection of 414 such links from the ac. uk domain. A …

Conceptualizing documentation on the Web: An evaluation of different heuristic‐based models for counting links between university Web sites

M Thelwall - Journal of the American Society for Information …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
All known previous Web link studies have used the Web page as the primary indivisible
source document for counting purposes. Arguments are presented to explain why this is not …

Characterizing genres of web pages: Genre hybridism and individualization

M Santini - 2007 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When dealing with genres of Web pages, there are two important aspects to be taken into
account. On the one hand, the Web is fluid, unstable and fast-paced. On the other hand …