Dear CITSniks & AoIRians, Noted urban sociologist Sharon Zukin and grad student Valerie Trujillo are studying location-specific blogs -- those that identify/represent themselves as being from a certain place. (My suggested title: "A Blog Grows in Brooklyn"). Can you help them with lit? Their query is below. Please respond to VTrujillo@gc.cuny.edu Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman for fun: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _____________________________________________________________________ On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, Zukin, Sharon wrote:
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 19:15:53 -0500 From: "Zukin, Sharon" <SZukin@gc.cuny.edu> To: wellman@chass.utoronto.ca Cc: "Trujillo, Valerie" <VTrujillo@gc.cuny.edu> Subject: Question for listserv
For work that I am doing with Prof. Sharon Zukin on creative cultural producers in Brooklyn (New York), I are looking for studies of blogs that originate in, and identify with, specific areas of cities. How common are such blogs? How is it possible to identify blogs geographically? And what is the sociological research out there on such blogs?
Please contact Valerie Trujillo vtrujillo@gc.cuny.edu