Thanks to all who responded to my request for student help with political blogging sources. I know everyone posted to the AIR listserv but have gathered the responses here in one email in the hopes it will help everyone interested. Sarah

From: "Wainer Lusoli" <w.lusoli@lse.ac.uk> To: <air-l-aoir.org@listserv.aoir.org> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:40:19 -0000

Hi Sarah -

I've seen a few papers presented at APSA Conference 2004, try searching for 'blog' at

http://archive.allacademic.com/publication/apsa_index.php

At least three-four papers should will come up (in case they don't I have hard copies).

There was a very, very thought provoking round-table as well, with academics and bloggers, though I doubt it can be found online now. A summary is found at http://136.142.121.233/doc/ITP-News-Vol-1-No-1.pdf.

Finally, there is a report by the UK Hansard Society, concise but useful. http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/assets/Final_Blog_Report_.pdf

I am drafting a short piece about pol blogs in the UK, I'd be interested to see what else you come up with in the end. Can you please post back to the list?

Wainer Lusoli Research Fellow @ ESRI

http://www.lusoli.info w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk

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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 22:10:45 -0500 From: Rebecca Reynolds <rbreynol@mailbox.syr.edu>

Sarah, I recently completed a master's thesis in this area: a content analysis of the top 11 political news blogs vs. newspaper coverage of nine Democratic candidates in the 11 days leading up to the 2004 Iowa caucus. I pulled in some candidate popularity data and considered the mass comm theory of agenda-setting. A highlight: the amount of coverage candidates received in both the top blogs and in newspapers was highly positively correlated to each other, and to candidate popularity with the public.

Here are some references, maybe these will be useful (to authors below who are on the list, I hope you won't mind me mentioning your work!).

McCombs, M., Llamas, J.P., Lopez-Escober, J., & Rey, F. (1998). Candidate images in Spanish elections: Second-level agenda-setting effects. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 74(4), 703-717.

Herring, S., Scheidt, L., Bonus, S. Wright, E. (2004, Jan). Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs. Proceedings of HICSS' 04, Big Island, Hawaii.

Herring, S., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L., Wright, E. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of weblogs. Into the blogosphere. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/ .

Gallo, J. (2004). Weblog journalism: Between infiltration and integration. Into the blogosphere. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/.

Delwiche, A. (2004). Agenda-setting, opinion leadership, and the world of web logs. Presented at ICA 2004, New Orleans, May 2004.

Park, D. (2004). From many, a few: Intellectual authority and strategic positioning in the coverage of, and self-descriptions of, the 'big four' weblogs. Presented at ICA 2004, New Orleans, May 2004.

Rebecca Reynolds Ph.D. Candidate Syracuse University rbreynol@syr.edu

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Subject: Blog Research from AoIR List Serv To: sstein@unity.ncsu.edu, bueffel@uni-trier.de From: Kaye Trammell <trammell@lsu.edu> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:41:15 -0600

Dear Sarah & Steffen,

I keep a list of blog research (scholarly) at http://www.blogresearch.com/ref.htm . If you see something missing please do drop me a note. My main area of interest is in political use of blogs, so you may see a few articles on the list that peak your interest.

Enjoy. Kaye

____________________________________ Kaye Trammell, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Manship School of Mass Communication 212 Hodges Hall Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803-7202 trammell@lsu.edu Office 225/578-7380 Fax 225/578-2125

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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:57:33 -0600 (CST) From: "Eszter Hargittai" <lists04@eblogle.com>

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 -- Sarah Stein, Ph.D. Associate Professor & Asst Head of IT, Dept of Communication Chair, Teaching, Learning & Technology Roundtable (TLTR) Box 8104, N.C. State University Raleigh, NC 27695-8104 Ph: 919-515-9740; Fax 919-515-9456