[Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)

[Erick Iriarte Ahon]

Hi...

Only about blogs, we are preparing a conference in Zaragoza (June 
4-6) about the legal aspects (privacy, copyright, free access to 
information) and political aspects (e-democracy, e-government), of blogs.

More information in:
http://www.bitacorasyderecho.com

The results will be in the website.

Erick Iriarte Ahon
Alfa-Redi
http://www.alfa-redi.org


At 05:56 p.m. 15/04/2006, you wrote:

>You can also search and track topics of blogs conversations at BlogPulse:
>http://www.blogpulse.com/. Ignore if this has already been suggested!
>
>Cheers,
>Christy
>http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com
>
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>Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:43:22 -0500
>From: "Andre Brock" <andre.brock at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)
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>I'm studying African American weblogs and online media for my dissertation;
>i did a technorati and bloglines search initially, but was really
>unsatisfied with the results because many of the African American blogs i
>read weren't included.  I did a snowball sample, using informants (bloggers)
>and their blogrolls, said inspiration being derived by work that Susan
>Herring and some others have been doing a lot of work on blogs recently
>(cites below).
>
>That worked really well for me, but i should add that it worked well because
>i was looking for bloggers discussing a specific race-related incident.  I
>did so because such incidents seem to crystallize discussions of identity,
>which of course in a blogging context is performed discursively and often
>reified in the comments.
>
>Basically, if you're looking for a performance of identity - which is what
>i'm getting when you use the word "genre" - you need to find content that
>encourages an articulation of that identity.  Thousands of bloggers write
>about their cats, but cats are pretty much a race-neutral topic.  Look for
>topics that incite comment, and you'll find your target population.
>
>Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., and Wright, E. (2004). Women and
>children
>last: The discursive construction of weblogs. In L. Gurak, S. Antonijevic,
>L.
>Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric,
>Community, and Culture of Weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/
>
>Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Paolillo, J. C., Scheidt, L. A., Tyworth, M.,
>Welsch, P.,
>Wright, E., and Yu, N. (2005). Conversations in the blogosphere: An analysis
>
>"from the bottom up." Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Hawai'i International
>
>Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38). Los Alamitos: IEEE Press.
>http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/blogconv.pdf
>
>Andre
>
>--
>Andre Brock
>PhD Candidate - Library and Information Studies
>Project Athena Fellow
>POSSE Mentor - UIUC Posse 2 (217.333.4693)
>University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
>
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