Exploring the phenomena of blogging – the motivations and the consequences – with UK academic blogs producers Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Presentations and first Round Table Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp – American Politics and Policy) Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber) Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/