Methodological research around blogs
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
I have a couple advisees examining blogs (from and about China) and these are mostly being used as methodological tools - I will pass this on to them and see if they have anything for you. Mostly though cyber-anthropology, cyberethnography , virtual ethnography and so on are methodologies developed in interaction with various online interfaces and we work on extending them in order to work with blogs and other online/offline intersections. As you point out - they dont explicitly talk about blogs or other online fora as methodological tools - but in engaging blogs as "tools" one must also understand life and living at these sites in order to understand their limitations and possibilities while examining them as "data". r On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:51 AM, sop01kj@gold.ac.uk wrote:
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
Radhika Gajjala radhika@cyberdiva.org Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog
At UW-Madison, we are currently conducting a series of studies revolving around blogs: http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/blog-club/Site/Home.html So far we have surveyed both blog readers and bloggers and also experiment based studies, having blogs as central pieces in the manipulations, are being explored. Let me know if you need more info than the one you can find at the website. HGZ -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Radhika Gajjala Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:08 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Cc: tangqi@ohio.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs I have a couple advisees examining blogs (from and about China) and these are mostly being used as methodological tools - I will pass this on to them and see if they have anything for you. Mostly though cyber-anthropology, cyberethnography , virtual ethnography and so on are methodologies developed in interaction with various online interfaces and we work on extending them in order to work with blogs and other online/offline intersections. As you point out - they dont explicitly talk about blogs or other online fora as methodological tools - but in engaging blogs as "tools" one must also understand life and living at these sites in order to understand their limitations and possibilities while examining them as "data". r On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:51 AM, sop01kj@gold.ac.uk wrote:
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
Radhika Gajjala radhika@cyberdiva.org Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik http://www.cyberdiva.org/blog _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hello, I am looking for studies and reviews about educational blogs. Any suggestions? Beatrice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Homero Gil de Zuniga" <hgildezuniga@wisc.edu> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs
At UW-Madison, we are currently conducting a series of studies revolving around blogs: http://www.journalism.wisc.edu/blog-club/Site/Home.html So far we have surveyed both blog readers and bloggers and also experiment based studies, having blogs as central pieces in the manipulations, are being explored. Let me know if you need more info than the one you can find at the website. HGZ
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Radhika Gajjala Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 7:08 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Cc: tangqi@ohio.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] Methodological research around blogs
I have a couple advisees examining blogs (from and about China) and these are mostly being used as methodological tools - I will pass this on to them and see if they have anything for you.
Mostly though cyber-anthropology, cyberethnography , virtual ethnography and so on are methodologies developed in interaction with various online interfaces and we work on extending them in order to work with blogs and other online/offline intersections. As you point out - they dont explicitly talk about blogs or other online fora as methodological tools - but in engaging blogs as "tools" one must also understand life and living at these sites in order to understand their limitations and possibilities while examining them as "data".
r
On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:51 AM, sop01kj@gold.ac.uk wrote:
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
Radhika Gajjala radhika@cyberdiva.org
Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik
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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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Aristides Emmanuel Pereira -
Beatrice Ligorio -
Homero Gil de Zuniga -
Radhika Gajjala -
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