CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA

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

Email

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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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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