This document outlines a research plan for a major assignment on blogging. It will define what blogging is, explore the different types of blogging and what blogging offers like social interaction and community. The research will look at where blogging started and the future of blogging. Both primary research through questionnaires and secondary research from books and case studies online will be used. The findings will be presented through a series of blog posts, videos, and slideshow presentations on a newly created blog.

1. Is on…….

3.  It’s a development of social media and network
culture, in that people come together online and share
their views and opinions and acts as a way of online
social communication.
 Having experiences with blogging I'm interested to
research it.
Why I chose this for major
assignment?

4. What will I research?
 First I will define what blogging is
 What different types of blogging there are. Examples.
 What it offers
 Social interaction, Why people blog and its community.
 Where it all started.
 The future.
 The impact of blogging.
Week by week, these are what I will work on.

5. I will link back to:
 Convergence culture
 Participatory media culture
 “making is connecting” - Gauntlett
 Social media culture
 Network technology in everyday life

6. How will I research?
 Primary research:
 questionnaires answered by you, Andrew, and some
friends and family.
 Secondary research:
 books: Blogging by Rettberg, Making is connecting by
Gauntlett. another book in library with case studies in
 Online, looking at case studies

8. How I plan to produce my research
 IDEA 1
 Series of blog posts on a blog I will create
 Consisting of at least one video
 Text posts
 Slide share presentations
 IDEA 2
 Hyperlink interactive essay.
 photographs
 Videos
 Word documents/blog posts

9. Any questions?