ABSTRACT
Internet-based research is an increasingly popular approach to education policy analysis. It makes use of information networks, texts and tools that have exploded online over the last decade. These texts include social media, internet archives and other online record-keeping spaces. As education policy is embedded in knowledge systems that are connected by a global information system, this immersive approach to policy analysis allows researchers to understand and investigate policy networks that have been historically difficult to appraise. In this chapter, we present our two differing approaches to online policy network analysis.
