Credibility effects of blogs and the mainstream media

Stefan R.

Pathos in Milblogs

Unbelievable? How Warbloggers Try to Appear Credible

Session:

Reading:

PDFs of the Presentations:

5.6. Citizen Smash

 Please read the blog entries in the reader (p. 130-156).

 How is war represented compared to “Men in Black”?

 Is there a recurrent theme throughout the blog? 

Link to Johnny Cash's Song "Hurt" which inspired the blogger to write the entry we will focus on in the next session. The entry is titled "God, Hope, and Johnny Cash" (April, 2005).

How does the blogger use the song to convey his own feelings?

 A Day In Iraq.pdf

Please read the excerpts from Salam Pax's blog in the reader, and then consider these questions:

 Consider Danah Boyd's essay "A Blogger's Blog" in the reader. Is a blog always like a diary? Why or why not?

 How does the narrator portray himself in the blog?

 Also, please briefly view the online blog at http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/. Look at the format, layout, etc. What can these details tell you? 

26.6

Riverbend

Please read the "Elections..." post (http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2005_12_01_riverbendblog_archive.html) and consider the following question:

Is there anything exceptional about a woman writing a post like that?

Also, we'd like you to read this interview: http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/04/int05016.html and ponder the question whether anonymity is an important feature of blogs.

3.7.

Army of Dude

Please read: http://armyofdude.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2007-12-16T23%3A30%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=10

entries of 3.Dec 07 and 19.Nov.07

What intentions do you think drive the blogger to write in the way he does?

Please look at the pictures and videoclips from 5.Nov.07 til 3.Dec.07 and think about how war is represented in these pictures/videos compared to the representation of war in the blogs we have looked at so far.

Presentation

10.7.

Kaboom

Citizen Smash:

http://web.archive.org/web/20030401182515/

http://www.lt-smash.us

Where is Raed: http://dear_raed.blogspot.com

A Day in Iraq:

http://adayiniraq.blogspot.com/ 

Riverbend:

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

Army of Dude: http://armyofdude.blogspot.com

Kaboom: http://kaboomwarjournal.blogspot.com/

 danah boyd

 A Bloggers Blog: Exploring the Definition of a Medium
 http://www.danah.org/papers/ABloggersBlog.pdf

Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice

 http://www.danah.org/papers/MEABrokenMetaphors.pdf

Susan Herring, Lois-Ann Scheidt, Elijah L. Wright

 Gender and Genre Variations in Weblogs

http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/jslx.pdf 

Weblogs as a Bridging Genre

http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~herring/itp.pdf

Inna Kouper, Lois Ann Scheidt, and Elijah L. Wright. Women and Children Last: The discursive Construction of Weblogs. http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/women_and_children.html

Chris Chesher

Blogs and the Crisis of Authorship

http://incsub.org/blogtalk/?page_id=40

Sharon Weinberger

 No More YouTube, MySpace for U.S. Troops.Danger Room, 13.5.07.

 Mark Tremayne, Ang Zheng, Jae Kook Lee.

Issue Publics on the Web: Applying Network Theory to the War Blogosphere. JCMC 12(1). http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue1/tremayne.html

Lee Rainie et.al.

The Internet and the Iraq War. How Online Americans Have Used the Internet to Learn War News, Understand Events, and Promote their Views, 01.04.2003, http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Iraq_War_Report.pdf, 11.03.2008.

Mernit, Susan: „Kevin Sites and the Blogging Controversy“, in: Online Journalism Review, 03.04.2003, http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1049381758.php, 05.03.2008.  

Gallo, Jason: „Weblog Journalism: Between Infiltration and Integration“, in: Gurak, Laura J. et al. (eds.): Into the Blogosphere: Rhetoric, Community, and Culture of Weblogs, 2004, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/blogosphere/weblog_journalism.html, 06.03.2008.

Choi, Junho H./Watt, James W./Lynch, Michael: „Perceptions of News Credibility about the War in Iraq: Why Opponents Perceived the Internet as the Most Credible Medium“, in: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Jg.12, Nr.1, 2006. Online verfügbar: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue1/choi.html, 26.03.2008.

Mudville Gazette:

http://www.mudvillegazette.com/

http://iraqthemodel.blogspot.com

Arghhh:

http://www.thedonovan.com/ 

Milblogging:

http://www.milblogging.com

Captain Kj:

http://kjirstinbentson.wordpress.com/ 

365 and a Wake Up:

http://thunder6.typepad.com/

Blackfive:

http://www.blackfive.net/

The Sandbox:

http://gocomics.typepad.com/the_sandbox/

 
Michael Yon:

http://michaelyon-online.com/index.php

Healing Iraq:

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/

G in Baghdad:

http://geeinbaghdad.blogspot.com/

The Mesopotamian:

http://messopotamian.blogspot.com/

Doc in the Box:

http://docinthebox.blogspot.com/

Ma Deuce Gunner:

http://www.madeucegunners.blogspot.com/

From My Position... on the Way

http://tcoverride.blogspot.com/

A Soldier's Perspective:

http://www.soldiersperspective.us