Article Archive
 
Below are articles gathered by group members related to our two topics of study, along with some general interest reading on political blogging and identity politics:
 
1) Readings for the “Formal Features Study,” an online survey experiment examining the effects of manipulating features of political blogs on users thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
 
2) Readings for the “Multi-level Study,” a nested survey of the topic 100 political bloggers and visitors to their weblogs immediately following the 2006 midterm elections.
 

Blogging and New Media Lit List:

Extensive Bibliography of Articles, Books, Newspaper and Web Entries

Readings for Formal Features Study (EXPERIMENT):

Bauer..., Website Content and Structure...
Bichard..., Building Blogs...
Bucy..., Formal Features of Cyberspace...
Coyle..., Progressive Levels of Interactivity...
Eveland..., Learning from the Web vs. Print...
Eveland..., Examining Information Processing...
Khan..., Searching Through Cyberspace...
McMillan..., Exploring Models of Interactivity...
Sundar..., Multimedia Effects and Online News...
Sundar..., Source Attribution in Online News...
Trammell..., Interactivity through Text and Technical Features...

Readings for Multi-Level Study (SURVEY):

Hoffman..., Centering Decisions in HLM...
Kang..., Multilevel Approach to Civic Participation...
Kaye..., Online and In the Know...
Kaye..., Why Weblog Users Say They Use Weblogs...
MacDougall..., Identity and Blogs..
Matei..., The Internet and the Communication Infrastructure...
McKenna..., Getting the Word Out...
Paek..., Local News and HLM...
Pan..., Multilevel Analysis in Mass Communication...
Vigas..., Bloggers Expections of Privacy...
Wallsten..., Political Blogs and the Bloggers Who Blog Them...

General Interest Readings:

Conners..., Meetup, Blogs, & Online Involvement...
Hennessy..., Blogs and the Mainstream Media...
Johnston..., Identities and Social Movements...
Kerbel..., Blog for America...
Reese..., Mappings the Blogosphere...
Sander..., E-Associaitons? The Case of Meetup.com...
Schiffer..., Blogswarms and Press Norms...