Internet Learning Volume 3, Number 2, Fall 2014 | Page 95

Internet Learning
Figure 12. Thread Chronology. Response 1.
Figure 13. Thread Chronology. Response 2.
We will explore the main line of conversation
here. There is another question-answer
exchange with a fellow student, two
less impactful side interactions, and a summative
post by the lead author. These can
be explored in detail using Interactive 3.
The following figures describe and
illustrate structural, temporal, and SKN attributes
of responses in the example thread.
For context, we also provide some minimal
narrative on the content of the conversation,
based on our digital-ethnographic analysis.
Rather than move through the entire thread
chronologically, we will cover the main
body of the conversation here, and leave
other responses for discovery in Interactive
3. In the section on 8. RQ3 FINDINGS, we
will use a concept graph to examine the actual
content of the thread in more detail.
Renlit opens this thread with a detailed
description of a media piece focused
on analytics, as well as an in-depth description
of analytics in the wine industry. The
wine industry example contains anecdotes
from Renlit’s own experience, so this response
was coded as containing a personalStory
(Figure 12). Renlit’s corpus diagram
indicates high usage of personalStories
across all threads – the highest proportion
in the data set – and we can see that Renlit
tells stories in most of the posts on this
thread.
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