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The Scholar Blogs or Today, Tomorrow: Practices and Perceptions of Value, Impact and Stewardship
1. THE SCHOLAR
BLOGS OF TODAY,
TOMORROW?
PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF
VALUE, IMPACT AND STEWARDSHIP
CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA
Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies
ICPSR ▪ 14 AUGUST 2012 ▪ ANN ARBOR, MI
3. 2004-2005
OCLC
OCLC RESEARCH
- SENSE-MAKING THE INFORMATION CONFLUENCE
- MOVING FROM PRINT TO HYBRID JOURNAL
SUBSCRIPTIONS
2005-present - DIGITAL CURATION/INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY
UNC
- CAROLINA DIGITAL REPOSITORY
- DIGCCURR I (DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM)
- DIGCCURR II (PROFESSIONAL TRAINING)
AT CHAPEL HILL
- HUMAN INFORMATION INTERACTION
- DIGITAL PRESERVATION, ACCESS & CURATION
2010-present
MCGILL
- ARCHIVAL STUDIES STREAM
- TEACHING
- MEMBER, RESEARCH ETHICS BOARD
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES
5. FUNCTIONS
LEGITIMAZATION REWARD
BORGMAN DISSEMINATION VAN DE SOMPEL ET AL. (2004)
(2007) - ACCESS
- PRESERVATION INSTITUTIONALIZED
- CURATION ELEMENTARY
HAGSTROM (1965)
REGISTRATION
ROOSENDAAL EXTRINSIC
CERTIFICATION
ET AL.
INTRINSIC
(2001) AWARENESS
MURRAY & MOORE (2006)
ARCHIVING
6. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How do scholars who
blog perceive their blog
in relation to their
cumulative scholarly
record?
7. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How do they perceive
their blog in relation to
long-term stewardship?
Who do they perceive
as responsible as well
as capable for blog
preservation?
8. RESEARCH QUESTIONS
What blog characteristics
impact preservation?
What blogger behaviours
impact preservation?
9. UNITS & DATA SOURCES
BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER
Blog Analysis
10. PURPOSIVE SAMPLING
Academic Blog Portal
<http://www.academicblogs.org>
History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys
13. QUESTIONNAIRES
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)
15. BLOG ANALYSIS
Coded 93 blogs
Authorship Attributes
Blog Elements & Features
Rights & Disclaimers
57 to 63 Indicators Authority & Audience
(on/off blog) Blog Publishing Activity
Post Features
Archiving
(SR: 49.5%)
17. 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).
18. SCHOLARLY 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%
BLOGGER
30. SAVING
Subscription
services
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services %
Purposefully save entire blog via an
archiving service or independently
BLOGGER
31. SAVING
Export tools
Personal
back-ups
Document/text files
Via syndication
services %
Purposefully save some
blog components
BLOGGER
32. Better things to do
Personal responsibility
Personal communications
BLOGGERS
33. DISCLAIMERS
Own
opinion
Not
responsible
Advice %
have an explicit or implicit
disclaimer-style statement
BLOG
34. Better things to do
Personal responsibility
Personal communications
Bad experience
BLOGGERS
38. Pretty
bad.
Devastated,
both emotionally and
professionally.
Very
sad.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
39. I’d do something
drastic [in response].
Mad as hell.
Pretty
peeved. Angry
& upset.
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
40. 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
41. 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
42. It would take an
extreme catastrophe.
How would
that happen?
SADNESS RELIEF DOUBT
ANGER C’EST LA VIE
48. AVAILABLE BUT INACTIVE
Not actively
published to
in previous
3 months
(n=156) %
left no message behind
on where they went or
if they will be back
BLOG
50. BIBLIOBLOGGERS
BLOG
Questionnaires
Interviews
BLOGGER Blog Analysis
CV Analysis
2012 OCLC/ALISE LISRGP
With Cassidy Sugimoto, CO-PI (IUB)
51. TEACHING IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK …
LIS FACULTY AND STUDENTS’ FRIENDING AND POKING IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE
FOCUS 1:1 POLICY WEB-BASED
GROUPS INTERVIEWS ANALYSIS SURVEYS
FEB-MAR-APR-MAY 2012 JUN-JUL-AUG 2012 SEPT-OCT –NOV 2012
EXPLORATORY DESCRIPTIVE
2012 ALISE RESEARCH GRANT
With Cassidy Sugimoto (IUB) &
Jeff Pomerantz and Fred Stutzman (UNC)
52. 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).
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