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Hi Courtney,

Below are some articles that may be relevant to your work.

Gruzd, A. A. (April 1, 2009). Automated Discovery of Social Networks in
Online Learning Communities. Doctoral dissertation, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. Available at
http://anatoliygruzd.com/pub/gruzd_anatoliy.pdf

Gruzd, A. (2009). Studying Collaborative Learning using Name Networks.
Journal of Education for Library and Information Science (JELIS) 50(4):
243-253. Available at
http://anatoliygruzd.com/pub/gruzd_2009_jelis_name_networks.pdf

Gruzd,A. (2009). Automated Discovery of Emerging Online Communities
Among Blog Readers: A Case Study of a Canadian Real Estate Blog.
Proceedings of the Internet Research 10.0 Conference, October 7-11,
2009, Milwaukee, WI, USA. Available at
http://anatoliygruzd.com/pub/gruzd_aoir_network_discovery.pdf

You can find other articles in this area on my website at
http://anatoliygruzd.com/home/?page_id=25

Cheers,
Anatoliy

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On 20/05/2010 5:14 PM, Amalya Oliver wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
> These may be of help:
>
>
> Oliver, A.L. and M. Ebers. 1998. Networking Network Studies - An
> Analysis of Conceptual Configurations in the Study of
> Inter-Organizational Relations. _ Organization Studies_, 19, 4:549-583
>
>
> Oliver, A.L and K. Montgomery. 2005. Toward the construction of a
> profession’s boundaries: Creating a networking agenda. _Human
> Relations,_ 58:1167-1184.
>
> Oliver A.L. and K. Montgomery. 2008. Using Field Configuring Events for
> Sense Making: A Cognitive Network Approach, _Journal of Management
> Studies_, 45:6, 1147-1167.
>
>
> amalya
>
> Amalya L. Oliver
> Department of Sociology and Anthropology
> Chair, The Library Authority
> Chair, The Hoffman Leadership and Responsibility Program
> The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Brian Ulicny <[log in to unmask]
> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Our article on blog mining below combines social network analysis with
> content analysis:
>
> Brian Ulicny, Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, Christopher J. Matheus, "Metrics
> For Monitoring A Social-Political Blogosphere: A Malaysian Case
> Study," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 34-44, Mar./Apr.
> 2010, Special Issue on Social Computing in the Blogosphere.
> doi:10.1109/MIC.2010.22
>
> DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2010.22
>
> The authors' automated framework evaluates blog posts in a
> social-political blogosphere and, by aggregation, entire blogs
> according to their relevance, specificity, timeliness, and
> credibility. These metrics are superior to current methods in
> information retrieval for blogs because they better reflect the
> distinctive hyperlink structure of a social-political blogosphere than
> do other methods. The authors chose the Malaysian social-political
> blogosphere as a case study because of the role Malaysian bloggers
> played leading up to that country's 2008 general election, and
> afterward.
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Steffen Blaschke
> <[log in to unmask]
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> > Hi Courtney,
> >
> > while it's not the main focus of our working paper, we use genre
> analysis (Yates & Orlikowski, 1992) to enrich network data on
> organizational communciation (more specifically, intra-firm
> collaboration of employees and the themes and topics they are
> working on).
> >
> > - Blaschke, S., Schoeneborn, D., and Seidl, D. (2009).
> Organizations as Networks of Communications: A Methodological
> Proposal. Working Paper No. 102, University of Zurich.
> http://ssrn.com/abstract=1512471
> >
> > Reference:
> > Yates, J. and Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). Genres of Organizational
> Communica- tion: A Structural Approach to Studying Communication and
> Media. Academy of Management Review, 17(2):299–326.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Steffen
> >
> > -
> > Dr. Steffen Blaschke
> > Assistant Professor at the Chair of Organization and Management
> > Faculty of Business, Economics, and Social Sciences
> > University of Hamburg
> > Von-Melle-Park 5
> > 20146 Hamburg, Germany
> > Office: +49 (40) 42838 4676
> > Cell: +49 (178) 3333625
> > Weblog: http://lou.econ.uni-hamburg.de
> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/blaschke
> >
> >
> >
> > On May 19, 2010, at 10:51 PM, S. Courtney Walton wrote:
> >
> >> ***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** I'm
> looking for articles combining content analysis with network
> analysis as references for a study looking at social media and
> self-disclosure. Of particular interest will be the methods section
> and how the two are combined, as well as how the study addresses
> density.
> >>
> >> Any recommendations? I'm happy to summarize and reshare :-)
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> S. Courtney Walton
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> >>
> >> MA/PhD Student
> >> Department of Communication
> >> 4309 Social Sciences & Media Studies Bldg
> >> University of California, Santa Barbara
> >> 93106
> >>
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