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

Abigail Groves a.groves at student.unsw.edu.au
Sat Apr 15 20:59:16 PDT 2006


Hi folks,
It turns out that my only contribution to this list in two years of 
membership was in error - that previous reply was meant to be off-list.
Sorry.
Abi
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Abigail Groves" <a.groves at student.unsw.edu.au>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>; <albrock at uiuc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 1:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)


> Andre,
> I'm not contributing to this discussion, but I did notice your name on the
> email.  We met at the aoir conference last year - I thought I'd drop a 
> line
> and say hi.  I hope your dissertation is going well.
> Regards,
> Abi
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andre Brock" <andre.brock at gmail.com>
> To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 5:43 AM
> Subject: [Air-l] searching for genre-specific blogs (Douglas Eyman)
>
>
>> 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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