{"id":9241,"date":"2019-02-15T10:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T09:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=9241"},"modified":"2026-08-24T10:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T08:11:03","slug":"blogs","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/jan-hinrik-schmidt\/\">PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt<\/a> provides an overview of blogs as an object of empirical social research and outlines methodological approaches for studying them.<\/p>\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9239 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-Blogs-JHS-300x193.png\" alt=\"Cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-Blogs-JHS-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-Blogs-JHS-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/26-08-03-Blogs-JHS.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>\u201eWeblogs\u201c (in Kurzform auch: \u201eBlogs\u201c), sind regelm\u00e4\u00dfig aktualisierte Webseiten, die bestimmte Inhalte (zumeist Texte beliebiger L\u00e4nge, aber auch Bilder oder andere multimediale Inhalte) in umgekehrt chronologischer Reihenfolge darstellen. Die Beitr\u00e4ge sind einzeln \u00fcber URLs adressierbar und bieten in der Regel die M\u00f6glichkeit, Kommentare zu hinterlassen. Durch Querverweise in Beitr\u00e4gen und Kommentaren (Nam, Kapitel 74 in diesem Band) sowie durch empfehlende Links auf andere Blogs \u2013 die \u201eBlogroll\u201c \u2013 sind die meisten Blogs Teil eines Geflechts von Webseiten (Sch\u00fcnzel\/Traue, Kapitel 71 in diesem Band). Die Gesamtheit aller Blogs wird auch als \u201eBlogosph\u00e4re\u201c bezeichnet.<\/p>\n<p>[\u201cWeblogs\u201d (or simply \u201cblogs\u201d) are regularly updated websites that present specific content\u2014most commonly texts of varying length, but also images or other multimedia content\u2014in reverse chronological order. Individual posts are accessible via unique URLs and typically allow readers to leave comments. Through cross-references in posts and comments (Nam, Chapter 74 in this volume), as well as through recommended links to other blogs\u2014the \u201cblogroll\u201d\u2014most blogs are part of a broader network of websites (Sch\u00fcnzel\/Traue, Chapter 71 in this volume). The collective body of all blogs is commonly referred to as the \u201cblogosphere.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt, Jan-Hinrik (2019): Blogs. In: Baur, Nina \/ Blasius, J\u00f6rg (Hrsg.): Handbuch Methoden empirischer Sozialforschung [Handbook of Empirical Social Research Methods]. 2. \u00fcberarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien. S. 1015-1025. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-658-21308-4_72\">DOI: 10.1007\/978-3-658-21308-4_72.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-9241","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Blogs - Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/blogs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"PD Dr. Jan-Hinrik Schmidt provides an overview of blogs as an object of empirical social research and outlines methodological approaches for studying them. 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