Chapter 3 Blogging

The first section of reading in this assignment talked about getting permission from those you are observing in a research project. This part gives some important advice on this subject, like studying a group that is not threatening. Jake tries to observe the campus skin heads and realizes that he will not get much out of it because of how secretive and racist they are. The second section is about Skye Angus's venture into the blogging world. She observes the writing techniques of others and even herself. She finds other people's writings to be interesting and describes the experience of blogging as addictive. In the end she learns some new things from her research of the blogging sub culture and then becomes part of the subculture as well.