Potential Bibliography

1)Student Blogs Mark a New Frontier for School DisciplineFind More Like This
Author(s):
Kirby, Elizabeth; Kallio, Brenda
Source:
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v72 n5 p16-23 Jan 2007. 8 pp.
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2)Perlmutter, David D.
Source:
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, v72 n2 p25-32 Oct 2006. 8 pp.
ISSN:
0013-127X
Descriptors:
Information Sources, Elections, Political Campaigns, Internet, Web Sites, Hypermedia, Electronic Publishing, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Use, Agenda Setting, Higher Education
Abstract:
In this article, the author examines the role blogs will play in future campaigns and elections and how bloggers will affect the election of the next commander in chief. A necessary starting point in discussing the role of blogs in the presidential election of 2008 is to consider how similar blogs are, as a new medium or genre or venue, to traditional components of presidential politics. The following themes are covered: (1) blogs as the new "first in the nation" testing ground; (2) bloggers' inability to convince voters from different backgrounds; (3) blogs as fund-raising machines; (4) blog posts as campaign literature; (5) blogs as "meet the candidate" get-togethers; (6) bloggers as political operatives; (7) blogs as campaign rallies; (8) blogs as television ads; and (9) blogs as talk radio. Despite the dangers to candidates in embracing blogging too fully, blogging is now part of our political campaigns, elections, and public affairs debates; although the future is unknown, it will not be unblogged.

3)The Rise of Blog NationFind More Like This
Author(s):
Lum, Lydia
Source:
Black Issues in Higher Education, v22 n12 p20-22 Jul 2005. 3 pp.
ISSN:
0742-0277
Descriptors:
Credentials, Journalism Education, Popular Culture, Programming (Broadcast), News Reporting, Peer Acceptance, News Media, Web Sites, Computer Mediated Communication, African Americans, Higher Education
Abstract:
This article reports on the growth of blogs in popular culture, and the fact that they are becoming more widely accepted in the media industry. The rise and popularity of blogs--short for "Web logs"--are causing journalism educators to overhaul their teachings. In fact, blogging's influence varies from one university program to the next, just like it varies among different publications in the country. Despite their rising popularity, blogs still have only a fraction of the impact on the curriculum that convergence does. Convergence is the cross-training of students to specialize in one medium such as broadcast or print, while learning basic skills in other media. In a historic move, some bloggers were issued media credentials to cover the 2004 national Democratic and Republican conventions. Whereas bloggers initially were people who had no voice in the established media, their writings are gaining more respect and increasingly driving news coverage. More and more newspapers and magazines are adding blogs to their Web sites.

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