[Air-l] Methodological research around blogs

[Radhika Gajjala]

I have a couple advisees examining blogs (from and about China) and  
these are mostly being used as methodological tools - I will pass  
this on to them and see if they have anything for you.

Mostly though cyber-anthropology, cyberethnography , virtual  
ethnography and so on are methodologies developed in interaction with  
various online interfaces and we work on extending them in order to  
work with blogs and other online/offline intersections. As you point  
out - they dont explicitly talk about blogs or other online fora as  
methodological tools - but in engaging blogs as "tools" one must also  
understand life and living at these sites in order to understand  
their limitations and possibilities while examining them as "data".


r

On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:51 AM, sop01kj at gold.ac.uk wrote:


>
> Does anyone have any recommendations or references which might be  
> helpful
> in trying to find out if there is any methodological research  
> around blogs
> or photoblogs as ways of collecting data from participants or  
> acting as
> fieldwork/visual diaries? And are there any other research groups
> interested in this?
>
> Many thanks
> Kat Jungickel - PhD Student, Sociology Dept
> Vicky Skiftou -  Academic researcher, Sociology Dept
> v.skiftou at gold.ac.uk, 0207 9197484
>

Radhika Gajjala
radhika at cyberdiva.org

Radhika Gajjala
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
School of Communication Studies
302 West Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43402
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