the scholar blogs or today, tomorrow: practices and perceptions of value, impact and stewardship

THE SCHOLAR BLOGS OF TODAY, TOMORROW?

CAROLYN.HANK@MCGILL.CA

Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies

PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF VALUE, IMPACT AND STEWARDSHIP

ICPSR ▪ 14 AUGUST 2012 ▪ ANN ARBOR, MI

part I

history personal

OCLC 2004-2005

OCLC RESEARCH

- SENSE-MAKING THE INFORMATION CONFLUENCE

- MOVING FROM PRINT TO HYBRID JOURNAL

SUBSCRIPTIONS

MCGILL 2010-present

SCHOOL OF INFORMATION STUDIES

- TEACHING

- MEMBER, RESEARCH ETHICS BOARD

- ARCHIVAL STUDIES STREAM

UNC - CAROLINA DIGITAL REPOSITORY

- DIGCCURR I (DIGITAL CURATION CURRICULUM)

- DIGCCURR II (PROFESSIONAL TRAINING)

2005-present

AT CHAPEL HILL

- DIGITAL CURATION/INSTITUTIONAL REPOSITORY

- HUMAN INFORMATION INTERACTION

- DIGITAL PRESERVATION, ACCESS & CURATION

BLOGS &

PRESERVATION General Bloggers - CHOEMPRAYONG & SHEBLE (2006-2008)

- BLOGFOREVER: EU-FUNDED PROJECT (http://blogforever.eu)

Scholar Bloggers - HISTORY, ECONOMICS, LAW, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY & PHYSICS

- BIBLIOBLOGGERS

LEGITIMAZATION

DISSEMINATION

- ACCESS

- PRESERVATION

- CURATION

ROOSENDAAL

ET AL.

(2001)

BORGMAN

(2007)

REGISTRATION

CERTIFICATION

AWARENESS

ARCHIVING

VAN DE SOMPEL ET AL. (2004)

REWARD

INSTITUTIONALIZED

ELEMENTARY

HAGSTROM (1965)

EXTRINSIC

INTRINSIC

MURRAY & MOORE (2006)

FUNCTIONS

How do scholars who

blog perceive their blog

in relation to their

cumulative scholarly

record?

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?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

What blog characteristics impact preservation?

What blogger behaviours impact preservation?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

UNITS & DATA SOURCES

Questionnaires

Interviews

Blog Analysis BLOGGER

BLOG

History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys

PURPOSIVE SAMPLING Academic Blog Portal

<http://www.academicblogs.org>

(29%)

125 Single-Blogs | 63 Co-Blogs

ELIGIBLE BLOGS

ELIGIBLE 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

(SR: 49.5%)

results part II

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

SCHOLARLY 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

%

… to present

INVITATIONS

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

%

… to collaborate

INVITATIONS

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

%

… to serve

INVITATIONS

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

%

INVITATIONS

… to publish

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

%

preservation for public access

& use into the indefinite future

BLOGGER

PRESERVATION

BLOGGER

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%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY

Blogger

Co-Author(s)

Provider/Host/Network

Search Engine

Public Trust

preservation BLOGGER

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 BLOGGER

Better things to do

BLOGGERS

Books

Personnel

Communications

Journal articles

Filter

Blogs

Class

Blogs Traditional Publications

Law review articles

Email

Self-Publications

Works-in-progress

Blogs Peer-Reviewed Pubs

Informal Publications

Lab Notebooks

Published Papers

Dissertations

& Theses

Monographs

Select

Blog Posts

Book Reviews

Teaching materials

Scientific & Scholarly Research

Pedagogical Research & Tools

LOWER HIGHER

PRESERVATION PRIORITY

BLOGGER

Blogs

Journal articles

Books

Better things to do

Personal responsibility

BLOGGERS

%

Purposefully save entire blog via an

archiving service or independently

SAVING

Subscription

services

Export tools

Personal

back-ups

Document/text files

Via syndication

services

BLOGGER

%

SAVING

Purposefully save some

blog components

Export tools

Personal

back-ups

Document/text files

Via syndication

services

BLOGGER

Better things to do

Personal responsibility

Personal communications

BLOGGERS

%

DISCLAIMERS

have an explicit or implicit

disclaimer-style statement

Own

opinion

Not

responsible

Advice

BLOG

Better things to do

Personal responsibility

Personal communications

Bad experience

BLOGGERS

if? What

35/48

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?

BLOG DELETION

%

have deleted a blog

BLOGGER

%

POST DELETION

delete posts after publication

BLOGGER

Duplicate

Post

“Post Regret”

Too sensitive or

revealing

%

POST EDITING

edit posts after publication

BLOGGER

RIGHTS & USE

Creative

Commons (n=13)

Copyright

Statement (n=34)

%

no rights or use statements

at blog or post level

BLOG

next? what’s

part III

left no message behind

on where they went or

if they will be back

BLOG

%

AVAILABLE BUT INACTIVE

Not actively

published to

in previous

3 months (n=156)

DISPATCHES FROM

BLOG PURGATORY

BLOG

reviewing 1700+ blogs listed

BIBLIOBLOGGERS

Questionnaires

Interviews

Blog Analysis

CV Analysis

BLOGGER

BLOG

2012 OCLC/ALISE LISRGP With Cassidy Sugimoto, CO-PI (IUB)

2012 ALISE RESEARCH GRANT

With Cassidy Sugimoto (IUB) &

Jeff Pomerantz and Fred Stutzman (UNC)

TEACHING IN THE AGE OF FACEBOOK …

1:1

INTERVIEWS

FOCUS

GROUPS

WEB-BASED

SURVEYS

POLICY

ANALYSIS

EXPLORATORY DESCRIPTIVE

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THANK YOU CAROLYN HANK

Email: carolyn.hank@mcgill.ca

Phone: (001)514.398.4684

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