Dan Drezner and Henry Farrell (the co-author of that piece in Foreign Policy) also have the draft of a related paper available online with a summary and link here: http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002223.html Also, with Jason Gallo and Sean Zehnder, I am working on a political blogging paper from which we'll be presenting material at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings in DC in March and at the Midwest Political Science Assn meetings in Chicago in April. We are using social network analysis to map the political blogosphere and look at the extent of cross-ideological discussions. It's not quite ready for circulation, but feel free to send me a note if you'd like us to keep you posted. Eszter --- http://www.eszter.northwestern.edu

Message: 1 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 05:40:32 +0800 From: "Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)" <TRKluver@ntu.edu.sg> Subject: [Air-l] political blogging To: <air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org> Message-ID:

Sarah, Daniel Drezner, a political scientist/blogger at the University of Chicago, has recently been doing a lot on blogging, and just published a piece in Foreign Policy, I think. http://www.danieldrezner.com/research/blogpaperfinal.pdf http://danieldrezner.com/policy/webofinfluence.htm

Randolph Kluver Executive Director Singapore Internet Research Centre Nanyang Technological University Singapore 637718 phone (65) 6790-5770 URL: www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/

mapping from an online identity to a legal identity--these seem like Bad Ideas. But is there a strong case for protecting an open system from passive surveillance?

A colleague is advising a senior capstone thesis in political blogging and its impact, and had the following questions after finding few academic publications. I'd appreciate any suggestions for her, off-list or on.

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Are there major academic articles about political blogs? In what journals? Are there major theories that we should consider? What criteria do you apply to blogs when analyzing them?

Thanks, Sarah