[Air-l] Methodological research around blogs

[Homero Gil de Zuniga]

At UW-Madison, we are currently conducting a series of studies revolving
around blogs: http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/blog-club/Site/Home.html  
So far we have surveyed both blog readers and bloggers and also experiment
based studies, having blogs as central pieces in the manipulations, are
being explored. 
Let me know if you need more info than the one you can find at the website. 
HGZ

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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Radhika Gajjala
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:08 AM
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Subject: Re: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs

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
http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik

http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog





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