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 ************************************************************************
From: sop01kj@gold.ac.uk Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: air-l@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 Cohens work and his article in Media, Culture and Society - http://www.photosleavehome.blogspot.com/ - and Adam Reeds 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@gold.ac.uk, 0207 9197484
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