The United States Food Blog Survey

The other day I received an inquiry from a person working on a Master's in Gastronomy at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. I've been asked to help spread the word about a survey she's put together, plainly named The U.S. Food Blog Survey.

"I am writing a dissertation on the impact American food blogs are having on American print food journalism (as in newspaper and journal articles, as well as food-centered magazines)."

If you're here it's because you're reading food blogs, are interested in food, it's possible your wages depend on what you do in the kitchen, and/ or you supplement food magazines with blogs. Whatever your reasons for taking a few minutes with Eggbeater every day, please consider taking about 10 minutes to fill out 33 questions found in this survey. Surveys only work if a multitude of kinds of people from various places and viewpoints fill them out.

Please take The U.S. Food Blog Survey-- click on this link to get there.

            You have from January 14th to January 28th, 2008 to complete it.

Thanks! I, for one, am very interested in the surveys' findings. As we all know the Internet is still a new medium and we make history every day participating in it's workings.

Comments

[Kalyn]

Shuna, great post and I for one am very interested to hear that someone is writing a dissertation on this subject. Off to take the survey.

[Diane]

I filled out the survey, but I found the questions kind of simplistic and from my POV off base. Still it's good to see someone studying this. Not to sound too much like sour grapes (I am hardly doing anything to contribute to this field of study!) - but the biggest disconnect I saw was an attempt to equate or parallel blogging with journalism.

Questions like "would attaching a resume or credentials to a blog make me think better or worse of it" miss the point in some fundamental way for me. Blogging is about mostly about community to me. It is experiential, deeply personal to the individual blogger and flexibly open-ended. Journalism is more regimented. They compliment each other, but are not the same nor should they be.