Soldiers in the Blogosphere: A survey of blogs will be starting soon ... - The Diigo Meta page

• 22 Nov 08
  

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  An Army officer, who is currently a student at the Air Command and Staff College, is doing research on milblogging. As part of that work, he is conducting what is essential a "content analysis" of milblogs. I'm glad to see this work being done. However, I'd like to see more rigorous methodology for choosing the blogs to analyze. A random sample of sites as indexed by milblogging.com would probably be best.

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  • Over the coming week or so, I will be looking at a large number of milblogs for the following:

    • reasons for blogs (update friends, tell good stories, correct the record, tell another side, etc)
    • purpose of blog (journal, "war stories", opinion on current events, etc)
    • any evident bias (pro-war, anti-war, any other possible "agenda", etc)
    • any trends that I identify (changes over time, etc)

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