[Air-L] Canonical Works on Blogs

[elw at stderr.org]

> If this does get published (god willing) it will be one of the first
> papers in geography on blogs, so I would like to include a decent
> literature review that touches upon some of the major works. The goal
> is to cite works which are good at defining blogs and at describing
> their more important features and influences on modern society.
>

> Winer, D. (2003) What makes a weblog a weblog.
> http://www.scripting.com/davenet/2003/06/18/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog.html
> (not exactly an academic source, but what are you going to do)


>  Lin, J., Halavais, A., and Zhang, B. (2007). The blog network in 
> america: Blogs as indicators of relationships among us cities. 
> Connections, 27(2):15?23.
>
> Vigas, F. (2005). Blogger' expectations of privacy and accountability: 
> An initial survey. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3).
>
> Obviously, there is much more out there on blogs than this. What other 
> sources would make up a good 'canon of blogs' list?


In addition to the following, you should also check out Lois's blog bib, 
available at:

http://loisscheidt.com/linked/bibliographies/Weblog_and_Blog_Bibliography.pdf

Glad to see the Lin/Halavais piece in your list;  that's nice work.

Also, be sure that you spell Fernanda Viegas' name correctly ;-)

Good luck...  --elijah

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