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BHSU faculty awarded Chiesman grant to study blogging

By Journal staff | Thursday, November 20, 2008

SPEARFISH -- A professor at Black Hills State University in Spearfish has been awarded a Chiesman grant to study whether blogging engages citizens in the democratic process and contributes to their civic learning.

Dr. Mary Caton-Rosser, assistant professor of mass communication at BHSU, was given $5,100 to further explore the role of blogs in the political process.

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Students at the school have been conducting research on four newspaper sites, including the Rapid City Journal, Billings Gazette, Denver Post and Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The research team members include: Dee Sleep, community member and former BHSU adjunct faculty; Caylen Groen-Jones, senior mass communication major from Edgemont; Heather Smith, junior mass communication major from Belle Fourche; Odessa Backen, sophomore art major from Spearfish; Tina (LiTing) Sun, sophomore mass communication

major from Rapid City; and Alicia McNeary, freshman English major from Rapid City.

Specifically, Caton-Rosser and her team are studying the Rapid City Journal's national award-winning blog Mount Blogmore.

The project is centered on the political participation process of blogging in a presidential election year.

The group's project was recently selected to be presented at the Fifth International Technology, Knowledge and Society Conference. They will be presenting their project "virtually" at the conference the end of January 2009.

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