Comments on: Research about blogging http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/research-about-blogging/ Notes from the classroom and observations about today's practice of journalism online Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:08:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Patrick Beeson http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/research-about-blogging/#comment-191 Patrick Beeson Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:13:21 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/research-about-blogging/#comment-191 I wish this amount of research was being published when I was in graduate school (the last two years, in fact)!<br/><br/>I looked at blogs in several classes, but found scant information from academia then -- now it's exploding.<br/><br/>Fantastic! I wish this amount of research was being published when I was in graduate school (the last two years, in fact)!

I looked at blogs in several classes, but found scant information from academia then — now it’s exploding.

Fantastic!

]]> By: Murley http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/research-about-blogging/#comment-190 Murley Fri, 28 Jul 2006 15:42:47 +0000 http://www.mindymcadams.com/tojou/2006/research-about-blogging/#comment-190 Now four years ago, when I first started looking into blogging (2002), there was almost nobody studying it. I was excited with the possibilities. Now, it's attracted folks like moths to a flame. As someone who's been doing research as the third or fourth priority behind teaching classes, advising four publications, taking doctoral classes, and trying to reinvent college media, it's challenging, to say the least.<br/><br/>I'm still doing my dissertation on weblogs, but it's focused on a form of religious weblog community, so there's a little less of crowd. Now four years ago, when I first started looking into blogging (2002), there was almost nobody studying it. I was excited with the possibilities. Now, it’s attracted folks like moths to a flame. As someone who’s been doing research as the third or fourth priority behind teaching classes, advising four publications, taking doctoral classes, and trying to reinvent college media, it’s challenging, to say the least.

I’m still doing my dissertation on weblogs, but it’s focused on a form of religious weblog community, so there’s a little less of crowd.

]]>