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Internet Research Team

The Internet Research Team is a student-led group of scholars interested in exploring, discussing, and using online and digital research methods. The group also includes faculty and staff and meets regularly throughout the year. We invite people of all levels of technical skills who are conducting or have an interest in online and digital research to join the group here on the Commons and attend the meetings.

For more information, please contact us at [email protected].

Edwin Mayorga & Micki Kaufman, Coordinators
Collette Sosnowy, PhD & Kiersten Greene, PhD, Founders

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  • The Rise of the Blog

    Posted by Amanda Licastro on September 17, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    Hello IRT members,
    I am in search of scholarship that documents/analyzes/explicates the historical moment I call the rise of the blog – the earliest instances of blogging in the very late 1990’s and very early 2000’s. Basically I need help locating materials that chronicle examples of early blogging and help explain how the genre formed. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
    Thank you so much,
    Amanda

    • Jessie Daniels
      Participant
      September 17, 2012 at 3:15 pm

      A couple of good places to start:

      Perlmutter, David R. 2008. Blogwars. (New York: Oxford University Press.)

      Pole, Antoinette J. 2009. Blogging the Political: Politics and Participation in a Networked Society. (New York: Routledge.)

      Both are focused on then-current political bloggers, and each includes a decent historical account of the rise of blogging.

    • Amanda Licastro
      Participant
      September 17, 2012 at 3:23 pm

      Wonderful! Thank you! Those are extremely helpful.

      Does anyone have texts that focus on personal or academic blogs as well?

    • Jessie Daniels
      Participant
      September 17, 2012 at 3:33 pm

      A few more:

      Rosenberg, Scott. 2009. Say Everything: How Blogging Began, What It’s Becoming, and Why It Matters. (New York: Random House.)

      Tobias, Vicky. 2005. “Blog This! An Introduction to Blogs, Blogging, and the Feminist Blogosphere.” Feminist Collections 26 (2/3):11-17.

      Wright, Susan and Elisa Page Camahort. 2008. “The BlogHer/Compass Partners 2008 Social Media Study.” Available online at: http://www.blogher.com/files/BlogHer.CompassPartners.Social%20Media%20Study.ppt.pdf

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