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Event: Fifth Bloomsbury Conference on E-Publishing and E-Publications, London, UK, June 30, 2011.
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NEW MEDIA, SOCIAL SCHOLARSHIP
[email protected] Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
SCHOLARS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR BLOGS WITHIN THE SYSTEM OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION
5TH BLOOMSBURY CONFERENCE ON E-PUBLISHING & E-PUBLICATIONS
JUNE 30, 2011 ▪ LONDON, UK
How do scholars who
blog perceive their blog
in relation to their
cumulative scholarly
record?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
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
What blog characteristics impact preservation?
What blogger behaviours impact preservation?
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
UNITS & DATA SOURCES
Questionnaires
Interviews
Blog AnalysisBLOGGER
BLOG
Academic Blog
Portal
Purposive Sampling
POPULATION
<http://www.academicblogs.org>
(29%)
125 Single-Blogs | 65 Co-Blogs
History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys
ELIGIBLE BLOGS
ELIGIBLE BLOGGERS
107 Single-Bloggers | 187 Co-Bloggers
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)
INTERVIEWS
24 semi-structured
phone interviews
72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest
BLOG ANALYSIS
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
results12/48
%
post-secondary institution
OCCUPATION
BLOGGER
%
(n=58)
Distinguished/
Chaired Prof.
Professor/
Full Prof. +
OCCUPATION
BLOGGER
AGE
years
(range 25 to 70 years old)
mean real age
BLOGGER
(range 0 to 39 years)
mean professional age
years
AGE
BLOGGER
%
are male
GENDER
BLOGGER
ESTABLISHED PUBLICATION AND SERVICE HISTORY
BLOGGER
monograph (author)book chapter
peer-reviewed article
comment (journal)book review
conference proceedingsessay.article.op-ed (other)
textbookmonograph (editor)book review (other)
BLOGGER
SERVICE
0% 100%
Manuscript/book
evaluator
Journal article
referee
Journal editor/
associate editor38%
70%
79%
BLOGGER
91% have
performed
at least 1 of
these service
activities
%
BLOG INSTANCES
publish to 2 or more blogs
BLOGGER
%
do not tweet
MICROBLOGGING
BLOGGER
%
first blog published to
BLOG HISTORY
BLOGGER
(57% between 5 to 8 years old)
mean blog age
years
BLOG AGE
BLOG
IDENTITY
Real name | Both | Pseudonym
84 138% %%
BLOG
%
BLOGGING
update their blog 1+
times per week
BLOGGER
%
BLOGGING
published a new post
within the previous week
BLOG
%
make all of their posts
publicly available
POSTING
BLOGGER
Average posts per month
(2,726 posts published August 1-31, 2010)
posts
POSTING
BLOG
PRIMARY AUDIENCE
0% 100%
General public
Colleagues and
professional peers
Everyone elsestudents, family, friends, others
8%
32%
61%
BLOGGER
%
ENGAGEMENT
employ a post
commenting feature
BLOGGER
%
respond to comments
ENGAGEMENT
BLOGGER
%
post comments to other
blogs 1+ times per week
ENGAGEMENT
BLOGGER
%
COMMENTS
of most recent posts
had zero comments
BLOG
So looked at posts
from 1 year earlier
BLOG
COMMENTS
COMMENTS 2009
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
0 1 2-3 4-5 6-10 11-19 ≥ 20
COMMENTS
PO
STS
BLOG
RIGHTS & USE
Creative
Commons (n=13)
Copyright
Statement(n=34)
%
feature 1 or more
statements or licenses
BLOG
%
DISCLAIMERS
have an explicit or implicit
disclaimer-style statement
Own
opinion
Not
responsible
Advice
BLOG
%
COMMENT POLICY
have an explicit or implicit
comment policy or guidelines
Moderation
Tone &
language
Copyright &
licenses
BLOG
%
EDITING
edit posts after publication
BLOGGER
… only 2 blogs included
a policy or statement
BLOG
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
BLOGGER
%
… to present
INVITATIONS
BLOGGER
%
… to collaborate
INVITATIONS
BLOGGER
%
… to serve
INVITATIONS
BLOGGER
%
INVITATIONS
… to publish
BLOGGER
monograph (author)
book chapterpeer-reviewed article
comment (journal)
book review
conference proceedingsessay.article.op-ed (other)
textbook
monograph (editor)
book review (other)
BLOGGER
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
BLOGGER
%
preservation for public access
& use into the indefinite future
BLOGGER
PRESERVATION
BLOGGING OVER TIME
About the same 35%
Somewhat more 14%
Somewhat less 25%
A lot less 17%
A lot more 8%
BLOGGER
if?What
51/48
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?
What’s
59/48
next?
THANKS TO …Dr. Helen R. Tibbo
Dr. Lynn Silipigni Connaway
Dr. Jeffrey Pomerantz
Paul Jones
Dr. Richard Marciano
Dr. Cal Lee
Dr. Deborah Barreau
THANKS FOR …Beta Phi Mu 2010 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
School of Library and Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
… AND THANK YOU
CAROLYN HANKEmail: [email protected]
Phone: 514.398.4684
Web: http://ils.unc.edu/~hcarolyn
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