Blog analysis /

Blogs are the quintessential early 21st century text blurring the boundary between private and public. This entry reflects on the use of "weblogs" or "blogs" as a social research tool and the opportunities and challenges they offer the qualitative researcher. The defining feature...

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Main Author: Hookway, Nicholas
Other Authors: Atkinson, Paul, 1947- (Editor), Delamont, Sara, 1947- (Editor), Cernat, Alexandru (Editor), Sakshaug, Joseph W. (Editor), Williams, Richard A., active 2020 (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd., 2020.
Series:Digital and media research.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Blogs are the quintessential early 21st century text blurring the boundary between private and public. This entry reflects on the use of "weblogs" or "blogs" as a social research tool and the opportunities and challenges they offer the qualitative researcher. The defining features of blogs are "frequency, brevity and personality" (Turnbull, 2002, p. 82). More formally, a "blog" refers to a website that contains a series of frequently updated, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common web page, usually written by a single author (Hookway, 2008). Blogs are treated as multimedia "documents of life" that offer unique personal accounts of everyday life and provide large amounts of instantaneous data that are global, archived, searchable, and relatively resource-lite. This entry provides guidance on blog data collection ...
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781529746532
1529746531
9781526421036
1526421038