Presentation given on April 18, 2012 for the Promotion & Tenure Brown Bag Lecture Series at the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington.
AWS Community Day CPH - Three problems of Terraform
Scholars in the Blogosphere
1. SCHOLARS
IN THE
BLOGOSPHERE
CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA
Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
P&T BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES ▪ 18 APR 2012 ▪ SLIS ▪ IUB
2. BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER
Blog Analysis
03 | xx units & data sources
research questions
3. History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys
ACADEMIC BLOG PORTAL
<http://www.academicblogs.org>
06 | xx population
blogs
4. 1. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
2. PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH
3. KNOWLEDGE OR PERSONAL BLOG
4. TIME-STAMPED POSTS
5. ACTIVELY PUBLISHED TO
6. AT LEAST 1 YEAR OLD
7. PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS (RE: AUTHORSHIP)
8. AUTHORED BY 1 OR MORE “SCHOLARS”
06 | xx blog eligibility
population
9. 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)
11. 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%)
24. POSTING
%
make all of their posts
publicly available
BLOGGER
25. POSTING
%
update their blog 1+
times per week
BLOGGER
26. POSTING
%
published a new post
within the previous week
BLOG
27. POSTING
posts
Average posts per month
(range 1 to 324)
BLOG
28. PRIMARY AUDIENCE
Everyone else 8%
students, family, friends, others
General public 32%
Colleagues and
61%
professional peers
0% 100%
BLOGGER
29. 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).
Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W.,
BLOGGER & Helland, P. (2002).
53. Pretty
bad.
Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Very
sad.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
54. I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Mad as hell.
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
55. 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
56. 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
57. It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
58. 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. BLOG DELETION
%
have deleted a blog
BLOGGER PERCEPTIONS
67. 1. PUBLICLY AVAILABLE
2. PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH
3. KNOWLEDGE OR PERSONAL BLOG
4. TIME-STAMPED POSTS
5. ACTIVELY PUBLISHED TO
6. AT LEAST 1 YEAR OLD
7. PERSONAL IDENTIFIERS (RE: AUTHORSHIP)
8. AUTHORED BY 1 OR MORE “SCHOLARS”
BLOG
68. 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
70. THE BIBLIOBLOGOSPHERE
A Comparison of Communication
and Preservation Perceptions and
Practices between Blogging
LIS Scholar-Practitioners and
LIS Scholar-Researchers
Awarded 2012 OCLC/ALISE LIS Research Grant
(Co-PI: Dr. Cassidy Sugimoto, Indiana-Bloomington)