Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Scholars’ Blogs or Scholarly Blogs? Perceptions and Implications for Promotion, Reward and Preservation
1. SCHOLARS’ BLOGS
OR
SCHOLARLY BLOGS?
PERCEPTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
PROMOTION, REWARD AND PRESERVATION
CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA
Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
SCHOOL OF INFO & LIBRARY SCIENCE ▪ 25 APRIL 2012 ▪ CHAPEL HILL
5. CONTINUED
FOCUS LEGITIMAZATION
INTERVIEWS
REWARD
GROUPS
BORGMAN DISSEMINATION VAN DE SOMPEL ET AL. (2004)
(2007) -ACCESS
-PRESERVATION INSTITUTIONALIZED
-CURATION ELEMENTARY
HAGSTROM (1965)
REGISTRATION
EXTRINSIC
ROOSENDAAL CERTIFICATION
(2001) INTRINSIC
AWARENESS
MURRAY & MOORE (2006)
FUNCTIONSARCHIVING
6. BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER
Blog Analysis
03 | xx units & data sources
research questions
7. RR 1: QI: 63% | QII: 46% | QI/II: 52%
Completed sample:
153 respondents
Outcome rates derived from Internet surveys of specifically named persons
from the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2009)
questionnaires (N=294)
9. Coded 93 blogs
Authorship Attributes
Blog Elements & Features
57 to 63 Indicators Rights & Disclaimers
Authority & Audience
(on/off blog)
Blog Publishing Activity
Post Features
Archiving
blog analysis (SR: 49.5%; (N=188)
11. AGE
years
mean real age
(range 25 to 70 years old)
bloggers
12. AGE
years
mean professional age
(range 0 to 39 years)
bloggers
13. ESTABLISHED
PUBLICATION
AND SERVICE
HISTORY
bloggers
14. IDENTITY
84 %
8% 13%
Real name | Both | Pseudonym
legitimization
15. BLOG AGE
years
mean blog age
(57% between 5 to 8 years old)
legitimization & dissemination
16. BLOGGING OVER TIME
About the same 35%
Somewhat less 25%
A lot less 17%
Somewhat more 14%
A lot more 8%
legitimization & dissemination
17. POSTING
%
make all of their posts
publicly available
dissemination & access
18. POSTING
BLOG
% %
published a new post update their blog 1+
within the previous week times per week
legitimization & dissemination
19. PRIMARY AUDIENCE
Everyone else 8%
students, family, friends, others
General public 32%
Colleagues and
61%
professional peers
0% 100%
legitimization & dissemination
20. SCHOLARSHIP
Public 100%
Allows use and
Scholarly exchange 94%
record
80%
Subject to
critical
review 68%
66% agree with
all three criteria
Association of Research
Libraries (1986).
communication? Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W.,
& Helland, P. (2002).
44. Pretty
bad.
Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Very
sad.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
45. I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Mad as hell.
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
46. I don’t have to
do it anymore. I get half an
hour of my
life back.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
47. Probably
have a drink &
forget about it.
Not welcomed
but not tragic …
I’d get over it.
Pour another cup
of coffee & get
Drop out … back to work.
until something else
comes along.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
48. It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
49. PRESERVATION PRIORITY
Works-in-
progress
Scientific & Book
Scholarly Reviews
Research Books Books
Traditional
Books Peer-
Publications
Books Reviewed Dissertations
Law review Published Publications & Theses
articles Papers Peer- Self- Class
Published Reviewed Lab Publications Blogs
Papers Publications Notebooks Select
Journal Blog Posts Filter
Pedagogical Monographs
articles Research & Tools Books Blogs
Informal Blogs
Journal Teaching Journal Publications Filter
articles materials Teaching articles Blogs Blogs
Blogs Blogs
Journal materials Blogs Blogs
Blogs Email
articles Journal Blogs
articles Journal Journal Personnel Blogs
Blogs
articles articles Communications Blogs
HIGHER LOWER
59. AVAILABLE BUT INACTIVE
Not actively
published to
in previous
3 months
(n=156) %
left no message behind
on where they went or
if they would be back
BLOG
(N=188)
61. WHAT’S NEXT
The Biblioblogosphere: A Comparison of Communication and
Preservation Perceptions and Practices between Blogging LIS
Scholar-Practitioners and LIS Scholar-Researchers
BIBLIOBLOGGERS
2012 OCLC/ALISE LISRGP
With Cassidy Sugimoto, CO-PI (IUB)
62. BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER
Blog Analysis
CV analysis
03 | xx units & data sources
research questions
63. SOURCES
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