Do you think Cochran has explained her methods clearly enough for other researchers to replicate—in particular how she selected blogs to analyze and how she analyzed them? If you were to try to replicate or extend her study, can you think of anything you’d do differently methodologically?

How does Cochran handle the ethics of “repurposing” the blogs from open Web communication to private research study? (You’ll find this discussion in the first paragraph in her Methods section.) Does this seem like fair use of people’s blogs?

From the quotations, paraphrases, and descriptions of blogs that Cochran shows readers, can you tell how “fair” her reading is—the extent to which she’s considering multiple possible interpretations of the trends she observes?