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`Entering the blogosphere': some strategies for using blogs in social research

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Hookway, Nicholas·2008·Qualitative Research
DOI 10.1177/1468794107085298
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Since 1999 blogs have become a significant feature of online culture. They have been heralded as the new guardians of democracy, a revolutionary form of bottom-up news production and a new way of constructing self and doing community in late-modern times. In this article I highlight the significance of the `blogosphere' as a new addition to the qualitative researcher's toolkit and some of the practical, theoretical and methodological issues that arise from this. Some of the key ethical issues involved in blog data collection are also considered. The research context is a project on everyday understandings and experiences of morality.

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Metadata

Authors
Hookway, N.
Venue
Qualitative Research
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2008-02
Volume
8
Issue
1
Pages
91-113
ISSN
  • 1468-7941 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-3109
DOI
10.1177/1468794107085298
OpenAlex
W2057678917
Cited by
614
References
74
FWCI
90.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
gold
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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