ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the methodologies employed in the data selection and the collection process. With the developing computer and communication technologies, that has now changed and the Internet has become the primary medium for the white supremacists. Perry states: 'While many purveyors of hate are content to spread their rhetoric of intolerance in the 'real' community, there are those who prefer to holding their conversations in 'cyberspace' or in the context of 'virtual communities'. The present-day importance of the World Wide Web as a significant location for the articulation of social issues makes it a principal resource for discourse analysts. Mautner describes the web as a huge repository of authentic data, which may be used as a primary data source for socially relevant research such as critical discourse analysis. The combination of aspects of CDA and CL in critical discourse studies has been utilised by researchers to investigate various fields of enquiry.
