[Air-l] Methodological research around blogs

[Beatrice Ligorio]

Hello,
I am looking for studies and reviews about educational blogs. Any 
suggestions?

Beatrice

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Homero Gil de Zuniga" <hgildezuniga at wisc.edu>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs


>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Radhika Gajjala
> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:08 AM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Cc: tangqi at ohio.edu
> 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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