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Note: This list reflects my interest in journalism. It is not intended to include every article and book about blogs and blogging.
Balnaves, M., Mayrhofer, D., & Shoesmith, B. (2004). Media professions and the new humanism. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 18(2), 191–203. [NOTE: Some interesting observations about blogs written from Iraq.]
Bruns, A., & Jacobs, J., Eds. (2006). Uses of Blogs. New York: Peter Lang. [NOTE: Book. The introduction is particularly useful.]
comScore Media Metrix (2005). Behaviors of the blogosphere: Understanding the scale, composition and activities of Weblog audiences. Retrieved March 15, 2006, from comScore Networks Inc., http://www.comscore.com/blogreport/ comScoreBlogReport.pdf
Harp, D., & Tremayne, M. (2005). The gendered blogosphere: Where promise meets reality. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference, San Antonio, TX. [NOTE: Authors analyzed top 20 political blogs.]
Henning, J. (2003). The blogging iceberg -- of 4.12 million hosted weblogs, most little seen, quickly abandoned. Retrieved March 15, 2006, from http://www.perseus.com/blogsurvey/ thebloggingiceberg.html
Herring, S. C., Kouper, I., Scheidt, L. A., & Wright, E. L. (2004). Women and children last: The discursive construction of Weblogs. In L. J. Gurak, S. Antonijevic, L. Johnson, C. Ratliff, & J. Reyman (Eds.), Into the blogosphere: Rhetoric, community, and culture of weblogs. Retrieved March 20, 2006, from http://blog.lib.umn.edu/ blogosphere/women_and_children.html [NOTE: Study of 357 blogs for age and gender of bloggers.]
Johnson, T. J., & Kaye, B. K. (2004). Wag the blog: How reliance on traditional media and the Internet influence credibility perceptions of Weblogs among blog users. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 81(3), 622-642.
Kahn, R., & Kellner, D. (2004). New media and Internet activism: From the 'battle of Seattle' to blogging. New Media & Society, 6(1), 87-95.
Kaye, B. K. (2005). It's a blog, blog, blog world. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 13(2), 73-95. [NOTE: A uses & grats study of 3,747 blog users, conducted in 2003.]
Kumar, R., Novak, J., Raghavan, P., & Tomkins, A. (2004). Structure and evolution of blogspace. Communications of the ACM, 47 (12), 35-39. [NOTE: Study of profile pages of 1.3 million bloggers at Livejournal.com; demographics.]
Lowrey, W. (2006). Mapping the journalism-blogging relationship. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism 7(4), 477-500.
Matheson, D. (2004). Weblogs and the epistemology of the news: Some trends in online journalism. New Media & Society 6(4), 443-468. [NOTE: A qualitative study of the Guardian Weblog based on content throughout August 2002.]
Murley, B., & Smith, K. (2005). Bloggers strike a nerve: Examining the intersection of blogging and journalism. Paper presented at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication annual conference, San Antonio, TX. [NOTE: Survey of 59 bloggers from top 100 news-related blogs in late 2004.]
Journalist's trade: Weblogs and journalism (2003). Nieman Reports, 57(3), 59–98. [You'll find 18 short articles about blogging linked to this PDF of the Table of Contents for the issue.]
Pew Internet & American Life Project (2005, December 5). Internet activities. Retrieved March 15, 2006, from http:// www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities_12.05.05.htm
Rainie, L. (2005, January). The state of blogging (data memo). Retrieved March 15, 2006, from Pew Internet & American Life Project, http:// www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_blogging_data.pdf
Robinson, S. (2006). The mission of the j-blog: Recapturing journalistic authority online. Journalism, 7(1), 65-83.
Singer, J. (2005). The political j-blogger: 'Normalizing' a new media to fit old norms and practices. Journalism, 6(2), 173-198. [NOTE: Content analysis of 20 blogs authored by journalists.]
Trammell, K. D., & Keshelashvili, A. (2005). Examining the new influencers: A self-presentation study of A-List blogs. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 82(4), 968-982. [NOTE: Content analysis of 209 "most popular" blogs.]
Tremayne, M., Ed. (2006). Blogging, Citizenship and the Future of Media. New York: Routledge. [NOTE: Book. A collection of scholarly articles.]
Viégas, F. B. (2005). Bloggers' expectations of privacy and accountability: An initial survey. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(3), article 12. Retrieved November 10, 2005, from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/ vol10/issue3/viegas.html [NOTE: Survey of 492 bloggers in early 2004.]
Wall, M. (2005). 'Blogs of war': Weblogs as news. Journalism, 6(2), 153-172. [NOTE: Genre analysis of 30 news-oriented blogs in spring 2003.]