Introduction
Bloggers as media critics
Accuracy
Fact-checking descriptions
Fidelity of quotations
Authenticity of documents
Interpretations of statistics or scientific studies
Trustworthiness of memes
Framing
Disputing the frame
Reframing a set of facts
Contextualizing
Agenda-setting and gatekeeping
Questioning the news judgment
Setting an alternative agenda
Journalistic practices
Newsgathering
Writing and editing
Error correction
The economics of blogs
Technological facilitation
Cost/benefit ratio
The value chain
The media marketplace as an ecosystem : symbiosis
Blogs as alternative media
Reporting
Essays
The blogosphere and the public sphere
The ideal speech situation
The spiral of silence
The quantity question
The quality question
Competence
Cocooning
Bias
Quantity and quality, both.