Why Blog?

Acknowledgements

I must firstly thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Robert Gordon University Research Development Initiative (RDI) for funding parts of the research on which this book is based.

I am particularly grateful for all the assistance given to this project by Dr Caroline Macafee, both as a researcher on the RDI-funded research on British bloggers 2005–6 and for reading through and commenting on a draft of this book. In addition, I am grateful to my husband, Dr Frederik Pedersen, who also read and commented on the book. It goes without saying that any errors in the book are, of course, mine.

I would also like to offer grateful thanks to my students Alistair Chivers and Tracey Forbes, whose work on blogging ...