[Air-l] Methodological research around blogs

[Aristides Emmanuel Pereira]

Hello Kat,

My actual dissertation is about Japanese celebrities' blogs and how they use 
them as a tool to promote and reinforce their public persona out of 
conventional media.

I have been cataloging an gathering data from 50 different blogs and my 
intention is to perform a content analysis including text and images. As 
Japanese is a language that uses very particular structures to express 
social relations and proximity I will be also looking for issues related to 
private/public in the uses of language.

I also made a study on travelers blogs, specially about people that would 
come to Japan and write about their experiences - in this case I considered 
the data collected from blogs almost as 'field notes' that were collected by 
third party individuals. Even within these two studies I still don't really 
know how good blogs would work as methodological tools, specially in 
different studies where the researcher would need a certain control over 
input methods and participants.

Anyhow, I have a deep interest in this area and would be glad to 
receive/exchange more information about the subject.

My regards,

Aristides Emmanuel Pereira, M.A. Int. Cultural Studies
PhD Candidate
Department of Multi-Cultural Societies
Graduate School of International Cultural Studies
Tohoku University
Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi
980-8576 JAPAN
www.bleepsblops.com
Tel. +81-90-6255-2095
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>From: sop01kj at gold.ac.uk
>Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>Subject: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs
>Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:51:21 +0100 (BST)
>
>Hi everyone
>
>We are researchers at Goldsmiths and associated with INCITE
>(www.studioincite.com). We're interested in how blogs are being used for
>social research and have found blogs such as
>http://becomingananthropologist.blogspot.com/ but very little explicit
>discussion about blogs as a methodological tool. One exception is Kris
>Cohen’s work and his article in Media, Culture and Society -
>http://www.photosleavehome.blogspot.com/ - and Adam Reed’s work -
>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/staffprofiles/reed.htm
>
>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
>
>
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