[Air-l] political blogging

[Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)]

Sarah, Daniel Drezner, a political scientist/blogger at the University of Chicago, has recently been doing a lot on blogging, and just published a piece in Foreign Policy, I think. 
http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/blogpaperfinal.pdf
http://danieldrezner.com/policy/webofinfluence.htm

Randolph Kluver
Executive Director
Singapore Internet Research Centre
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore 637718
phone (65) 6790-5770
URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/

mapping from an online identity to a legal identity--these seem like Bad
Ideas.  But is there a strong case for protecting an open system from
passive surveillance?

A colleague is advising a senior capstone thesis in political 
blogging and its impact, and had the following questions after 
finding few academic publications. I'd appreciate any suggestions for 
her, off-list or on.

>Are there major academic articles about political blogs? In what journals?
>Are there major theories that we should consider?
>What criteria do you apply to blogs when analyzing them?

	Thanks,
	Sarah

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