Introduction:Examining the blog-media relationship /Mark Tremayne --Part one: Blogging: research on blogging using content analysis -- Longitudinal content analysis of blogs: 2003-2004 /Susan C. Herring ... ]et al.[ --Audiences as media producers: content analysis of 260 blogs / Zizi Papacharissi --Pundits in muckrakers' clothing: political blogs and the 2004 U.S. Presidential Election /D. Travers Scott --Analyzing political conversation on the Howard Dean candidate blog /Sharon Meraz -- Blogging for better health: putting the "public" back in public health / S. Shyam Sundar ... ]et al.[ --Part two: Citizenship: examining blog use, antecedents and consequences --Reading political blogs during the 2004 election campaign: correlates and political consequences /William P. Eveland, Jr., Ivan Dylko --Blog use motivations: an exploratory study / Barbara K. Kaye --Credibility of political messages on the Internet: a comparison of blog sources /Lynda Lee Kaid, Monica Postelnicu --Blog readers: predictors of reliance on war blogs /Thomas Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye --Part three: The future of media: examining the impact of blogging on journalism --Press protection in the blogosphere: applying a functional definition of "press" to news web logs /Laura Hendrickson --Blogs without borders: international legal jurisdiction issues facing bloggers / Brian Carroll, Bob Frank --Emergent communication networks as civic journalism /Lou Rutigliano --Citizen journalism: a case study /Clyde Bentley ... ]et al.[ --Harnessing the active audience: synthesizing blog research and lessons for the future of media /Mark Tremayne.