I am biased because as a hearing impaired person, online communication means that I don't have to struggle to hear. Every other context IS a struggle. ProjectH Member survey response, 1996. The present section describes the methodologies used in analysis of ProjectH discourse in order to explain the process of collaborative computer-mediated communication. Frequency of posts to the ProjectH discussion list by ProjectH members was examined in order to analyze the frequencies of posts made by coordinators and all ProjectH members.
Discourse analysis is the study of message structure in communication.
The present research utilizes a variation of what is traditionally known as discourse analysis. Thus, the methodology of discourse analysis is atypical of what is commonly referred to as discourse analysis. The archived discussions of ProjectH members were divided into five eras in terms of the main activities completed in each perspective era. Discourse was analyzed by observing the headers for each archived discussion list message, and tallying the number of posts for each ProjectH member over each era created. Then, the total number of posts in each era, and the total overall number of posts by each member, were summed.