Scholars’ Blogs or Scholarly Blogs? Perceptions and Implications for Promotion, Reward and Preservation
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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.
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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
- 2. BLOGS & PRESERVATION 2006 General Bloggers - Choemprayong & Sheble (UNC) - BlogForever (EU) 2009 Scholar Bloggers - History, Economics, Law, Biology, Chemistry & Physics 2012 Bibliobloggers
- 3. THE SCHOLARLY RECORD & THE SYSTEM OF SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION? blogs
- 4. FUNCTIONS … FOCUS LEGITIMIZATION INTERVIEWS GROUPS BORGMAN DISSEMINATION (2007) -ACCESS -PRESERVATION -CURATION REGISTRATION ROOSENDAAL CERTIFICATION (2001) AWARENESS FUNCTIONSARCHIVING
- 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)
- 8. 24 semi-structured phone interviews 72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest interviews
- 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)
- 10. results
- 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).
- 21. INVITATIONS % … to present impact & reward
- 22. INVITATIONS % … to collaborate impact & reward
- 23. INVITATIONS % … to serve impact & reward
- 24. INVITATIONS % … to publish impact & reward
- 25. SCHOLARY LIFE PROMOTION GREATER VISIBILITY WORK ENJOYMENT TEACHING QUALITY SHARING PRE-PUBS IMPROVED WRITING EFFICIENCY NEITHER WRITING QUALITY IMPAIRED RESEARCH QUALITY RESEARCH CREATIVITY RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% impact & reward
- 26. ENGAGEMENT % employ a post commenting feature dissemination?
- 27. ENGAGEMENT % respond to comments dissemination
- 28. COMMENTS % of most recent posts had zero comments dissemination?
- 29. COMMENTS So looked at earlier posts BLOG
- 30. COMMENTS 45% 40% 35% 30% POSTS 25% 20% 15% 10% 5% 0% 0 1 2-3 4-5 6-10 11-19 ≥ 20 COMMENTS dissemination?
- 31. RIGHTS & USE Copyright Statement (n=34) Creative Commons (n=13) % no rights or use statements at blog or post level across functions
- 32. DISCLAIMERS Own opinion Not responsible Advice % have an explicit or implicit disclaimer-style statement across functions
- 33. COMMENT POLICY Moderation Tone & language Copyright & licenses % have an explicit or implicit comment policy or guidelines across functions
- 34. EDITING Spelling/ Grammar Rephrasing Incorrect Info Published before % ready edit posts after publication curation
- 35. … only 2 blogs included a policy or statement
- 36. DELETING Duplicate Post “Post Regret” Too sensitive or revealing % delete posts after publication curation
- 37. PRESERVATION % Agree preservation for public access & use into the indefinite future (strongly or somewhat) preservation
- 38. PRESERVATION Personal access/use 16% Short-term future Public access/use 19% Short-term future Personal access/use 76% Indefinite future Public access/use 80% Indefinite future 0% 100% preservation
- 39. SAVING % Purposefully save entire blog via an archiving service or independently preservation
- 40. SAVING Export tools Personal back-ups Document/text files Via syndication services % Purposefully save some blog components preservation
- 41. if? What
- 43. SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT ANGER C’EST LA VIE
- 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
- 50. BLOG DELETION % have deleted a blog curation
- 51. 100% 90% 80% 70% Blogger Co-Author(s) 60% Provider/Host/Network 50% Search Engine Public Trust 40% 30% 20% RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY preservation preservation
- 52. 100% 90% 80% Blogger Co-Author(s) 70% Provider/Host/Network 60% Search Engine 50% Public Trust 40% Nat'l Library 30% Nat'l Archive 20% Inst'l Library Inst'l Archive 10% Inst'l IT Dept 0% RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY preservation preservation
- 53. Better things to do Personal responsibility Personal communications Bad experience BLOGGER PERCEPTIONS
- 54. scholarship? check
- 55. first line of defense
- 56. first line of defense
- 57. final line of defense
- 58. part 2 … or, what’s next
- 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)
- 60. DEAR JOHN … THE BLOG BREAK-UP POST BLOG
- 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 Association of Research Libraries. (1986). The changing system of scholarly 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
- 64. THANK YOU … CAROLYN HANK Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca Phone: (001)514.398.4684 SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/carolynhank Slideshow: THANKS TO … OCLC/ALISE LISRGP ALISE RESEARCHGRANT QUESTIONS?