Towards a methodological approach for the analysis of issues of communication and control in networked e-learning discourse

This paper investigates how relations of power and the exercise of control reveal themselves in the discourse of collaborative networked e-learning. It reports on the use of an adapted methodological approach from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyse the discourse of two different e-learning pedagogic events. It draws conclusions from this for communication and control issues in networked e-learning and the relevance of CDA to networked e-learning research.