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
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?
They are out there, but it is quite rare that they: 1. Identify first with the locality versus an individual writing primarily about a specific community - perhaps you are including both 2. Take a more neutral point of view I am interested in how a Northfield.Org style of community blog might complement our active "Issues Forums" model <http://e-democracy.org/if>. See: http://northfield.org also, http://locallygrownnorthfield.org Note the commercial Metro Blogging network: http://www.metroblogging.com Also, is this StarTribune initiative considered a local blog to you? http://www.buzz.mn/ They do use Drupal. I should note that how you define a "blog" might be very important. Our Issues Forums generate RSS feeds automatically and get sucked into Technorati's blog search engine. Does that make our Issues Forums technically blogs? As far as I can tell, if we simply added "pinging" when new topics are created (not commented on) and perhaps a bit stylist window dressing to the first post in topic, an active forum isn't really any different than a multi-editor blog. So you may want to include local online forums in your analysis. How is it possible to identify blogs
geographically?
Combine target geographic search terms with blogging terms. Check out: http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=83453 Specifically: http://local.blogdigger.com/ Also note the "related blogs" results when you type in a place name: http://blogsearch.google.com Steven Clift E-Democracy.Org And what is the sociological research out there on
such blogs?
Please contact Valerie Trujillo vtrujillo@gc.cuny.edu
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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?
I know http://outside.in/ is trying to aggregate local information including locality-related blog postings - you could try contacting them and seeing if they have any clever ways of identifying local blogs... --- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)
You all should take a look at what Lisa Williams is doing in collaboration with the Center for Citizen Media/Dan Gillmor and Jay Rosen: http://www.cadence90.com/wp/?p=4539 It's called Placeblogger.com and should launch pretty soon. It's to be an aggregator of all place blogs and from what I understand has a Yahoo Map component as well. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has video and audio posts of Lisa explaining the project: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mediaberkman/2006/11/08/america-at-sidewalk-lev... Also, here's an web article from kairos on the topic: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/10.1/coverweb/lindgren/index.htm As someone from New Orleans who doesn't live there right now, I know I've relied upon the list of blogs over at http://thinknola.com/wiki/List_of_New_Orleans_bloggers to get a sense of what people are dealing with on a day to day basis. My dissertation plans to focus on online responses to Hurricane Katrina and seeing all of these voices go public at such times of crisis fascinates me. Keep me posted on whatever other research you all come across! Daisy Pignetti University of South Florida PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition http://dpignett.blog.usf.edu On 12/19/06, David Brake <d.r.brake@lse.ac.uk> wrote:
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?
I know http://outside.in/ is trying to aggregate local information including locality-related blog postings - you could try contacting them and seeing if they have any clever ways of identifying local blogs...
--- David Brake, Doctoral Student in Media and Communications, London School of Economics & Political Science <http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/study/ mPhilPhDMediaAndCommunications.htm> Also see http://davidbrake.org/ (home page), http://blog.org/ (personal weblog) and http://get.to/lseblog (academic groupblog) Author of Dealing With E-Mail - <http://davidbrake.org/ dealingwithemail/> callto://DavidBrake (Skype.com's Instant Messenger and net phone)
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Some University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) students are working on a location-based podcast directory called "GoCast." Google Maps is the interface, with podcast links as location flags, and each podcast reflective of that particular location. The project started as a way for musicians or audio artists to link music to a specific location, but I believe the vision has grown to include walking tours of the city, as well as individual blog-style podcasts based on a location. The site is not public yet, but you can view the main page here: http://gocast.org and you can contact aislinn@audiocartography.org for more details. Sorry, but I don't recall the name attached to that email. (Disclaimer: I am not involved with this project and only saw a brief presentation on it.) cordially, Dan about me: This is my first posting to air-l. I'm a first-year master's student and teaching assistant in the dept. of Communication at North Carolina State University. Currently, my interests are in STS and the relationship between ICTs, social networking, and the production/use of social spaces.
Will you also be looking at geo specific wikis? Examples: RocWiki.org. a wiki for Rochester, NY or DavisWiki.org, a wiki for Davis, CA. Adam On Dec 17, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Barry Wellman wrote: 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 _____________________________________________________________________
It would make sense to look at work of Alex Halavais and Jia Lin on mapping weblogs on US georgaphy: Jia Lin & Alex Halavais Blogs as indicators of social relationships in the US http://www.aoir.org/?q=node/654 I have a feeling that I saw more of their work published, but can't easily recall there... Regards, Lilia --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lilia Efimova PhD researcher, Telematica Instituut Telematica Instituut: http://www.telin.nl PhD: http://iceberg.telin.nl Weblog: http://blog.mathemagenic.com On 18/12/06, Barry Wellman <wellman@chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
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
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