Graduation Year

2014

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree

Ph.D.

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

Department

Education

Degree Granting Department

Teaching and Learning

Major Professor

James R. King, Ed.D.

Co-Major Professor

Jenifer J. Schneider, Ph.D.

Committee Member

Danielle V. Dennis, Ph.D.

Committee Member

Liliana Rodriguez-Campos, Ph.D.

Keywords

content analysis, genre theory, literacy, multimodality, new literacies

Abstract

This study establishes a comprehensive methodology for analyzing children's website content, based on both linguistic and rhetorical data, by employing defensible criteria to evaluate both qualitative and quantitative data. By employing genre theory as a prism for examining form, substance, and rhetorical action within children's websites, this study applies that methodology to a purposeful sample of five children's websites. Results of the analysis document the complex multimodal and multilinear nature of the websites studied and identify a possible new genre, the pop culture carousel website.

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