this blog is intended to document my thoughts and findings on my major research project. this essay will be 15,000 words long, and will examine the relationships between a blogger and her readership and a journalist and her readership. some questions i will want to examine early on include:
- what is a blog? how can it be defined?
- will i focus on one country (ie the uk) - probably yes, as it will be easiest to get access to uk bloggers and journalists.
- what is the nature of a blog readership - demographically speaking? is it possible to generalise about it? and the same applies to a newspaper readership - although perhaps easier to find out the latter.
- what will be the theoretical basis of my project? i had considered habermas initially, but i'm not entirely sure it is appropriate (nor am i particularly confident with the theory.
