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Community blogs as organizations: bigger is a whole lot better

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

One of my enduring research interests is in the development of blogosphere into an organizing space for communities-of-interest. Blogging is generally treated as citizen journalism, with an assumption that the blog serves as a sort of personal megaphone, echoing out into cyberspace to greater or lesser (usually much lesser) ...

The News on Blog Readership: Some media frames just won’t go away

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Harris interactive released a new poll on Monday, indicating that 22 percent of American adults regularly read political blogs, meaning several times a month or more.  This is an astonishing number, both for what it tells us about the impressive penetration of blogging into political life and for the pervasive ...