From Text- to Hypertext-analysis: Consequences for Qualitative Research

Abstract

While gradually more texts are being distributed via the 'world wide web' and simultaneously becoming analyzed in the social sciences, there is a basic lack of reflection on the consequences of this change from text to hypertext. The article points out some of the differences relevant to qualitative research and structures them under the aspect of blurring boundaries. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0001169

Keywords

• qualitative research
• online research
• text analysis
• document analysis
• hypertext
• world wide web
• homepage
• website