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December 06, 2005

TONIGHT ON EXTENSION 720

Blogs, more formally known as web-logs, are one of the innovations of the internet era that have revolutionized American media and culture. Bloggers have exposed journalistic gaffes and given us an on-the-ground perspective from such diverse locales as Iraq and the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Tonight we welcome three prominent Chicago bloggers (who all happen to be academics) who will discuss their forays into blogging, examine blogs as a cultural phenomenon, and relate how their blogs have influenced their life and our world. Our guests will be DAN DREZNER, professor of political science at the University of Chicago who blogs at his own website, ESZTER HARGITTAI, professor of communications at Northwestern University and one of the bloggers at Crooked Timber, and SEAN CARROLL, professor of physics at the University of Chicago and one of the founding members of the physics blog Cosmic Variance.

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