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	Hyperlink Network Analysis	Semantic Network Analysis
Field	Communication	Communication
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2006	1999
Originator	Han Woo Park & Mike Thelwall (webometrics)	George Barnett, Marya Doerfel, Steven Corman (communication applications)
Type	Network analysis of hyperlinks among websites as social and communicative ties	Network representation of concepts and their co-occurrence in text
Seminal source	Park, H. W., & Thelwall, M. (2006). Hyperlink analyses of the World Wide Web: A review. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4).	Corman, S. R., Kuhn, T., McPhee, R. D., & Dooley, K. J. (2002). Studying complex discursive systems: Centering resonance analysis of communication. Human Communication Research, 28(2), 157–206.
Aliases	HNA, Webometric hyperlink analysis, Web hyperlink network analysis, Köprü Bağlantı Ağı Analizi	Text network analysis, Concept co-occurrence network analysis, Centering resonance analysis, Anlamsal Ağ Analizi
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Summary	Hyperlink network analysis (HNA) treats the hyperlinks among websites as social and communicative ties and applies social-network methods to the resulting web graph. Developed within webometrics by Park, Thelwall, and others, it reads a link from one organization's site to another's as a signal of endorsement, affiliation, or attention, and maps how actors — governments, NGOs, companies, media — are connected online.	Semantic network analysis represents the meaning of a text or corpus as a network of concepts connected by their co-occurrence or grammatical proximity, then uses network-analytic measures to reveal which ideas are central, how concepts cluster, and how shared meaning is structured. In communication research it is the standard way to map the conceptual architecture of media coverage, organizational discourse, and public conversation at scale.