scholars’ blogs or scholarly blogs? perceptions and implications for promotion, reward and...
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Guest talk given at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 25, 2012.TRANSCRIPT
Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
SCHOOL OF INFO & LIBRARY SCIENCE ▪ 25 APRIL 2012 ▪ CHAPEL HILL
SCHOLARS’ BLOGS
OR
SCHOLARLY BLOGS?
PERCEPTIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR
PROMOTION, REWARD AND PRESERVATION
BLOGS & PRESERVATION
2006 General Bloggers - Choemprayong & Sheble (UNC)
- BlogForever (EU)
Scholar Bloggers - History, Economics, Law, Biology, Chemistry & Physics
Bibliobloggers
2009
2012
blogs
THE SCHOLARLY
RECORD &
THE SYSTEM
OF SCHOLARLY
COMMUNICATION?
FOCUS
GROUPS INTERVIEWS
FUNCTIONS …
LEGITIMIZATION
DISSEMINATION
-ACCESS
-PRESERVATION
-CURATION
ROOSENDAAL
(2001)
BORGMAN
(2007)
REGISTRATION
CERTIFICATION
AWARENESS
ARCHIVING FUNCTIONS
FOCUS
GROUPS INTERVIEWS
CONTINUED
LEGITIMAZATION
DISSEMINATION
-ACCESS
-PRESERVATION
-CURATION
ROOSENDAAL
(2001)
BORGMAN
(2007)
REGISTRATION
CERTIFICATION
AWARENESS
ARCHIVING FUNCTIONS
VAN DE SOMPEL ET AL. (2004)
REWARD
INSTITUTIONALIZED
ELEMENTARY
HAGSTROM (1965)
EXTRINSIC
INTRINSIC
MURRAY & MOORE (2006)
Questionnaires
Interviews
Blog Analysis BLOGGER
BLOG
03 | xx research questions units & data sources
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)
questionnaires (N=294)
24 semi-structured
phone interviews
72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest
interviews
Coded 93 blogs
57 to 63 Indicators
(on/off blog)
Authorship Attributes
Blog Elements & Features
Rights & Disclaimers
Authority & Audience
Blog Publishing Activity
Post Features
Archiving
blog analysis (SR: 49.5%; (N=188)
results
AGE
years
(range 25 to 70 years old)
mean real age
bloggers
(range 0 to 39 years)
mean professional age
years
AGE
bloggers
ESTABLISHED PUBLICATION AND SERVICE
HISTORY
bloggers
IDENTITY
Real name | Both | Pseudonym
84 13 8 % % %
legitimization
(57% between 5 to 8 years old)
mean blog age
years
BLOG AGE
legitimization & dissemination
BLOGGING OVER TIME
About the same 35%
Somewhat more 14%
Somewhat less 25%
A lot less 17%
A lot more 8%
legitimization & dissemination
%
make all of their posts
publicly available
POSTING
dissemination & access
%
POSTING
update their blog 1+
times per week
legitimization & dissemination
% published a new post
within the previous week
BLOG
PRIMARY AUDIENCE
0% 100%
General public
Colleagues and
professional peers
Everyone else students, family, friends, others
8%
32%
61%
legitimization & dissemination
Public 100%
Subject to
critical
review 68%
Allows use and
exchange 94%
Scholarly
record
80%
66% agree with
all three criteria
Association of Research
Libraries (1986).
Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W.,
& Helland, P. (2002).
SCHOLARSHIP
communication?
%
… to present
INVITATIONS
impact & reward
%
… to collaborate
INVITATIONS
impact & reward
%
… to serve
INVITATIONS
impact & reward
%
INVITATIONS
… to publish
impact & reward
SCHOLARY LIFE
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY
RESEARCH CREATIVITY
RESEARCH QUALITY
WRITING QUALITY
WRITING EFFICIENCY
SHARING PRE-PUBS
TEACHING QUALITY
WORK ENJOYMENT
GREATER VISIBILITY
PROMOTION
IMPROVED
NEITHER
IMPAIRED
impact & reward
%
ENGAGEMENT
employ a post
commenting feature
dissemination?
%
respond to comments
ENGAGEMENT
dissemination
%
COMMENTS
of most recent posts
had zero comments
dissemination?
So looked at
earlier posts
BLOG
COMMENTS
COMMENTS
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
0 1 2-3 4-5 6-10 11-19 ≥ 20
COMMENTS
PO
STS
dissemination?
RIGHTS & USE
Creative
Commons (n=13)
Copyright
Statement (n=34)
%
no rights or use statements
at blog or post level
across functions
%
DISCLAIMERS
have an explicit or implicit
disclaimer-style statement
Own
opinion
Not
responsible
Advice
across functions
%
COMMENT POLICY
have an explicit or implicit
comment policy or guidelines
Moderation
Tone &
language
Copyright &
licenses
across functions
%
EDITING
edit posts after publication
Spelling/
Grammar
Rephrasing
Incorrect Info
Published before
ready
curation
… only 2 blogs included
a policy or statement
%
DELETING
delete posts after publication
Duplicate
Post
“Post Regret”
Too sensitive or
revealing
curation
%
Agree preservation for public access & use
into the indefinite future (strongly or somewhat)
PRESERVATION
preservation
PRESERVATION
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%
preservation
%
Purposefully save entire blog via an
archiving service or independently
SAVING
preservation
%
SAVING
Purposefully save some
blog components
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services
preservation
if? What
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Pretty
bad.
Very
sad.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
Mad as hell.
I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
I don’t have to
do it anymore. I get half an hour of my
life back.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
Not welcomed
but not tragic …
I’d get over it.
Probably
have a drink & forget about it.
Pour another cup
of coffee & get back to work. Drop out …
until something else
comes along.
SADNESS
C’EST LA VIE
RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER
It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
Blogs Teaching
materials
Books
Journal
articles
Blogs
Personnel
Communications
Books
Journal
articles
Filter
Blogs
Class
Blogs
Traditional
Publications
Blogs
Law review
articles
Blogs
Books
Journal
articles
Blogs
Self-
Publications
Peer-
Reviewed
Publications
Journal
articles
Filter
Blogs
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
Book
Reviews
Blogs
Journal
articles
Teaching
materials
Scientific &
Scholarly
Research
Pedagogical
Research & Tools
Blogs
LOWER HIGHER
PRESERVATION PRIORITY
BLOG DELETION
%
have deleted a blog
curation
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
Blogger
Co-Author(s)
Provider/Host/Network
Search Engine
Public Trust
preservation preservation
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY
Blogger
Co-Author(s)
Provider/Host/Network
Search Engine
Public Trust
Nat'l Library
Nat'l Archive
Inst'l Library
Inst'l Archive
Inst'l IT Dept
preservation preservation
Better things to do
Personal responsibility
Personal communications
Bad experience
BLOGGER PERCEPTIONS
scholarship? check
first line of
defense
first line of
defense
final line of
defense
part 2 … or, what’s next
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
%
AVAILABLE BUT INACTIVE
(N=188)
THE BLOG
BREAK-UP POST
BLOG
DEAR JOHN …
BIBLIOBLOGGERS
WHAT’S NEXT
2012 OCLC/ALISE LISRGP
The Biblioblogosphere: A Comparison of Communication and
Preservation Perceptions and Practices between Blogging LIS
Scholar-Practitioners and LIS Scholar-Researchers
With Cassidy Sugimoto, CO-PI (IUB)
Questionnaires
Interviews
Blog Analysis
CV analysis
BLOGGER
BLOG
03 | xx research questions units & data sources
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communication. Washington, DC: Author.
Borgman, C.L. (2007). Scholarship in the digital age: Information, infrastructure and the
Internet. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Braxton, J.M., Luckey, W., & Helland, P. (2002). Institutionalizing a broader view of
scholarship through Boyer’s four domains: ASHE-ERIC higher education report. San
Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Hagstrom, W.O. (1965). The scientific community. New York, NY: Basic Books.
Murray, R., & Moore, S. (2006). The handbook of academic writing: A fresh approach.
Maidenhead, UK: Open University Press.
Roosendaal, H.E., Guerts, P.A. Th.M., & van der Vet, P.E. (2001). Developments in
scientific communication: Considerations on the value chain. Information Services &
Use, 21(1), 13-32.
Van de Sompel, H., Payette, S., Erickson, J., Lagoze, C., & Warner, S. (2004).
Rethinking scholarly communication: Building the system that scholars deserve. D-Lib
Magazine, 10(9). doi: 10.1045/september2004-vandesompel
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