(feb 2011) scholars in the blogosphere: blogs, the scholarly record, and implications for...
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Event: Guest lecture in Ross Harvey's LIS 531W: Digital Stewardship, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons College, February 24, 2011.TRANSCRIPT
SCHOLARS IN THE BLOGOSPHERE
Dr. Carolyn [email protected]
Asst. Professor
School of Information Studies
McGill University
Simmons – GSLIS
LIS 531W: Digital Stewardship
24 February 2011
BLOGS, THE SCHOLARLY RECORD & IMPLICATIONS FOR PRESERVATION
Motivations
Research Questions
Methods
Findings
Discussion
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MOTIVATIONS
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How do scholars who
blog perceive their blog
in relation to their
cumulative scholarly
record?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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How do scholars who
blog perceive their blog
in relation to long-term
stewardship?
Who do they perceive
as responsible as well
as capable for blog preservation?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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What blog characteristics impact preservation?
What blogger behaviours impact preservation?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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BLOGS
BLOGGERS
Questionnaires
Interviews
Blog Analysis
UNITS & DATA SOURCES
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QUESTIONNAIRES
Completed sample:
153 respondents
RR 1: QI: 63% | QII: 46% | QI/II: 52%
Outcome rates derived from Internet surveys of specifically named persons from
the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR, 2009)
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INTERVIEWS
24 semi-structured
phone interviews
72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest
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BLOG ANALYSIS
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Coded 93 blogs
Authorship
Blog Elements & Features
Rights & Disclaimers
Authority & Audience
Blog Publishing Activity
Post Features
Archiving
57 to 63 Indicators
(on/off blog)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Hold a
doctorate (63%)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Male(78%)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Post-
secondary
faculty(74%)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Tenured (78%)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Avg. age
is 45 (Range 25 to 70)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Avg.
professional
age is 15 (Range 0 to 39)
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Established
publication
& service
history
RESPONDENT PROFILE
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Publish to
just 1 blog (58%)
BLOG PROFILE
Avg. blog age
is 4.5 years old (range 1 to 8)
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Public 100%
Subject to
critical
review 68%
Allows use and
exchange 94%Part of the
scholarly
record 80%
Association of Research
Libraries (1986).
QUESTION ONE
Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W.,
& Helland, P. (2002).
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0% 100%
Personal access/use
Indefinite future
Public access/use
Indefinite future
Personal access/use
Short-term future
Public access/use
Short-term future
16%
19%
76%
80%
QUESTION TWOPreservation Preferences
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QUESTION TWOPreservation Perceptions
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QUESTION (2)Preservation Perceptions
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QUESTION TWODoomsday
Scenario
RELIEF“I don’t have to do it anymore;” “I get half an hour of my life back.”
C’EST LA VIE“Pour another cup of coffee and get back to work;” “Probably have a drink and
forget about it;” “Not welcomed but not tragic … I’d get over it;” “Drop out of the
blogosphere until something else comes along.”
DOUBT“How would that happen?;” “It would take an extreme catastrophe;”
“Hard to believe lost and unrecoverable.”
ANGER“Mad as hell;” “Pretty peeved;” “Pretty angry;” “Angry and upset;” “Frustrated;”
I’d do something drastic [in response] (i.e., legal action).
SADNESS“Pretty bad;” “Very bad;” “Sad;” “Pretty sad;” “Panicked;”
“Devastated, both emotionally and professionally.”
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BlogsTeaching materials
Books
Journal articles
Blogs
PersonnelCommunications
Books
Journal articles
FilterBlogs
ClassBlogs
Traditional
Publications
Blogs
Law review articles
Blogs
Books
Journal articles
Blogs
Self-Publications
Peer-Reviewed
Publications
Journal articles
FilterBlogs
Works-in-progress
Blogs
Published Papers
Blogs
Peer-Reviewed
Publications
Informal Publications
Blogs
Lab Notebooks
Published Papers
Dissertations & Theses
Monographs
Select Blog Posts
Books
Blogs
Books
Journal articles
Journal articles
BookReviews
Blogs
Journal articles
Teaching materials
Scientific & Scholarly Research
Pedagogical Research & Tools
Blogs
LOWERHIGHER
QUESTION TWOPreservation
Priorities
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Dynamic, Changing
Co-producer Dependencies
Understandability
Versioning
Rights and Use
Some “Archiving” Activity
QUESTION THREE
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55%update their
blog
several
times a week
BLOGGERS
55%
of most
recent posts
published
≤ 3 days
BLOGS
QUESTION THREE
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95% edit posts after publication
29% delete posts after
publication
Spelling & grammatical errorsRephrasingRemove incorrect infoPublished before ready
Duplicate post“Post regret”Too sensitive or revealing
QUESTION THREE
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QUESTION THREE
Text 99%
544 total words
79 quoted words
465 original words
Photos 16%
Other image elements 16%
Links 82% (avg. 5)
Comments 57%
Most Recent
Post
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50% check for permissions
before publishing content at least
half the time.
QUESTION THREE
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Rights
51%
none
37%
text
statement
14%
Creative
Commons
Other
Policies
QUESTION THREE
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80% of blogs in the blog analysis
sample archived to the Internet
Archive Wayback Machine
QUESTION THREE
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50% of law cluster blogs (n=12)
archived at Library of Congress’
Legal Blawgs Web Archive
QUESTION THREE
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Dr. Helen R. Tibbo
Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz
Paul Jones
Dr. Richard Marciano
Dr. Songphan Choemprayong
Laura Sheble
Thanks to ...
Thanks for ... Beta Phi Mu 2010 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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And thank you.
CAROLYN HANK
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 514.398.4684
Web: http://ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn
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