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On context of content: a comparative methodology review of how HCI and mass communication analyze blogs and social media

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Ellen Yi-Luen Do,

Charles M. EastmanAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2753 - 2758

https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241074

Published: 28 April 2007 Publication History

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Across contexts, researchers have most recently applied content analysis -an unobtrusive scientific method originated to draw social inferences from mass media contents-to studying weblogs and social media (WSM). In this paper, we look at the classic and contemporary definitions of content analysis and identify the methodology's key premises and uses. Against these premises and uses, we present findings from individual methodology reviews of twelve WSM studies involving content analyses by two disciplines -Mass Communication and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We cross-tabulate the individual reviews by discipline, in terms of (1) what content-analysis premises and uses were involved and (2) what research inferences -from media contents to social contexts-were made. We conclude with a collective comparison of the Mass Communication and HCI approaches to WSM and suggest one discipline complement the other in analyzing the contents as well as in drawing inferences on the user psychology and social behavior of WSM.

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Bonsignore EQuinn ADruin ABederson B(2013)Sharing Stories “in the Wild”ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/2491500.249150620:3(1-38)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2491500.2491506
Bonsignore ETan DBegole BKellogg W(2011)Sharing stories "in the wild"CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1979742.1979516(917-922)Online publication date: 7-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1979742.1979516

Index Terms

On context of content: a comparative methodology review of how HCI and mass communication analyze blogs and social media
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Publishing
  2. Law, social and behavioral sciences
    1. Psychology
    2. Sociology
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing design and evaluation methods
  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction

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CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/1240866

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Bonsignore EQuinn ADruin ABederson B(2013)Sharing Stories “in the Wild”ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/2491500.249150620:3(1-38)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2491500.2491506
Bonsignore ETan DBegole BKellogg W(2011)Sharing stories "in the wild"CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/1979742.1979516(917-922)Online publication date: 7-May-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1979742.1979516

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