Some PhD research on blogging
The blogosphere is increasingly becoming an interesting research object for the academia. Of course these researchers find themselves “obliged” to blog as well. Here are two I am currently following in my RSS reader:
- Mathemagenic: the blog of Lilia Efimova, who is actually quite famous, probably due to her internship at Microsoft where she studies the use of internal weblogs. For a description of the research please visit the pages at the Telematica Institute in the Netherlands.
In one of my previous post I already linked to a nice video of a presentation by Lilia. - Corpblawg: the blog of Cornelius Puschmann, a PhD student at the Department of English Language and Linguistics of the University of Duesseldorf, Germany. He is writing his dissertation on the corporate blog as a genre, trying to find linguistic features which are unique to corporate blogs.
Cornelius is building up a nice blogroll of corporate blogs. And there was a Dutch surprise in there for me as well! Check it out.
Do you know other interesting PhD researchers?
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posted Sep 6, 04:28 PM on Sep 06, 2006 |
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Sweet! I didn’t know about Cornelius’s blog or dissertation. Thanks for that link.
— Easton Ellsworth Sep 8, 01:55 AM #
Ingo Haupt at Business Blog Studies is sharing his research for a dissertation – it might be for a Ph. D. – titled “Business Blogs as an instrument for consumer loyalty.” He contacted me recently and told me about it and I think you and your readers deserve to know about it as well :).
— Easton Ellsworth Sep 9, 03:16 PM #
Marcel, thanks for the “famous”, although I don’t think it has something to do with Microsoft (the opposite is probably more true – I’ve got into contact with Microsoft researchers because of blogging :)
Regarding the PhD research on weblogs – there are many of us. Are you interested in blog research in general or those more specifically focused on business blogging?
— Lilia Efimova Sep 10, 11:58 PM #
Hi Lilia,
Thanks for stopping by here. And thanks for the clarification on how your relation with MS cam about.
My interest is not really limited to business blogging. More like Academic research on both the use of external blogs by organisations for their customer communication as on the internal use of weblogs (or wiki’s) for spreading information and knowledge.
Would you know more people doing this kind of PhD research? Maybe we can complile a nice collection?
Thanks.
Marcel
— Marcel Sep 11, 07:54 AM #
Hey Marcel,
thanks for blogging about my blog. I actually found your post just now (somehow the pingback didn’t quite work) and noticed that I had missed it before. I’ll be sure to put you into my feed reader now so that I don’t miss anything exciting you write.
Not sure if you’re familiar with this interesting source on e-learning by the way – thought that might be something you’d be interested in.
Best,
Cornelius
— Cornelius Puschmann Sep 18, 09:22 PM #
Hi Cornelius,
Thanks for stopping by here and thanks for the link: it looks quite good.
Marcel
— Marcel Sep 18, 09:32 PM #