Work in progress

I thought I'd share the outline for my thesis.  I've finished the data collection and research and all I have to do now is mostly write with a little bit of data analysis on the side.  I've got most of a chapter finished and am chugging quietly along.  The following are the titles I'm considering plus the abstract for the thesis:

Filipino Bloggers and the Contingency of Identification Online

Filipino Bloggers and the Contingency of Filipino Identity Online

My research focuses on Filipino bloggers and their expression of their Filipino identity on their blogs. Following from the data I gathered from bloggers both in the Philippines and overseas in a content analysis of Filipino-written blogs and from several interviews, my thesis begins from Stuart Hall’s conceptualization of identity as contingent and arising from difference. I explore the complexities behind the expression of Filipino identity on blogs and the numerous factors that such expression is contingent on. I answer three basic questions in my exploration of this contingent identity: Why is Filipino identity expressed on blogs? How is it expressed? And why is there no single or main Filipino blogging community?