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'''BROG''' is the acronym for the [http://www.blogninja.com/ Blog Research On Genre project] based in the [http://www.slis.indiana.edu/ School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington]. The BROG project is an informal research collaboration dedicated to the conduct of empirical, social science research on weblogs. Founded and directed by [http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/herring/ Susan C. Herring], a professor of Information Science at Indiana University and established researcher of [[computer-mediated communication]], its past and present members include faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars at Indiana University.  

'''BROG''' is the acronym for the [http://www.blogninja.com/ Blog Research On Genre project] based in the [http://www.slis.indiana.edu/ School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington]. The BROG project is an informal research collaboration dedicated to the conduct of empirical, social science research on [[weblog]]s. Founded and directed by [http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/herring/ Susan C. Herring], a professor of Information Science at Indiana University and established researcher of [[computer-mediated communication]], its past and present members include faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars at Indiana University.  

BROG is best known for an article published in January 2004 entitled, "[http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc "Bridging the Gap : A Genre Analysis of Weblogs]", that applied content analysis methods to a random sample of 203 blogs and characterized blogs as an emergent genre of computer-mediated communication.  This article received the [http://incsub.org/awards/index.php?p=18 2004 "Best Blogged Paper" Edublog award] and is often cited in scholarship about blogs. A [http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar] search indicates that it had been cited 162 times as of 19 November 2007.  

BROG is best known for an article published in January 2004 entitled, [http://www.blogninja.com/DDGDD04.doc "Bridging the Gap : A Genre Analysis of Weblogs"], that applied content analysis methods to a random sample of 203 blogs and characterized blogs as an emergent genre of computer-mediated communication.  This article received the [http://incsub.org/awards/index.php?p=18 2004 "Best Blogged Paper" Edublog award] and is often cited in scholarship about blogs. A [http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar] search indicates that it had been cited 162 times as of 19 November 2007.  

==History==

==History==

==Controversy==

==Controversy==

The presentation of BROG's research at the 2003 AoIR conference generated controversy among some bloggers who were present at the conference and others who were not about whether people who were "not bloggers" (two of the four original BROG members kept blogs at the time) could legitimately conduct research on blogs. Concerns were also expressed by some bloggers about the research's empirical, quantitative approach. Some critics expressed the view that this approach (which showed [[blog]]s to be less interlinked and conversational than was popularly believed) missed important aspects of the blogging experience.

The presentation of BROG's research at the 2003 AoIR conference generated controversy among some bloggers who were present at the conference and others who were not about whether people who were "not bloggers" (two of the four original BROG members kept blogs at the time) could legitimately conduct research on blogs. Concerns were also expressed by some bloggers about the research's empirical, quantitative approach. Some critics expressed the view that this approach, which showed that [[blog]]s are less interlinked and conversational than was popularly believed, missed important aspects of the blogging experience.

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==