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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

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THE SCHOLAR BLOGS OF TODAY, TOMORROW?

[email protected]

Assistant Professor ▪ School of Information Studies

PRACTICES AND PERCEPTIONS OF VALUE, IMPACT AND STEWARDSHIP

ICPSR ▪ 14 AUGUST 2012 ▪ ANN ARBOR, MI

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part I

history personal

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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

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BLOGS &

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

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

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

- BIBLIOBLOGGERS

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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

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How do scholars who

blog perceive their blog

in relation to their

cumulative scholarly

record?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

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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

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What blog characteristics impact preservation?

What blogger behaviours impact preservation?

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

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UNITS & DATA SOURCES

Questionnaires

Interviews

Blog Analysis BLOGGER

BLOG

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History| Economics | Law | BioChemPhys

PURPOSIVE SAMPLING Academic Blog Portal

<http://www.academicblogs.org>

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(29%)

125 Single-Blogs | 63 Co-Blogs

ELIGIBLE BLOGS

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ELIGIBLE BLOGGERS

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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)

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INTERVIEWS

24 semi-structured

phone interviews

72 (47%) of QI & QII respondents expressed interest

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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%)

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results part II

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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

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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

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%

… to present

INVITATIONS

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

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%

… to collaborate

INVITATIONS

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

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%

… to serve

INVITATIONS

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

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%

INVITATIONS

… to publish

BLOGGER

… impact & reward

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%

preservation for public access

& use into the indefinite future

BLOGGER

PRESERVATION

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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%

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20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

RESPONSIBILITY CAPABILITY

Blogger

Co-Author(s)

Provider/Host/Network

Search Engine

Public Trust

preservation BLOGGER

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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

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Better things to do

BLOGGERS

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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

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Better things to do

Personal responsibility

BLOGGERS

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%

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

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%

SAVING

Purposefully save some

blog components

Export tools

Personal

back-ups

Document/text files

Via syndication

services

BLOGGER

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Better things to do

Personal responsibility

Personal communications

BLOGGERS

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%

DISCLAIMERS

have an explicit or implicit

disclaimer-style statement

Own

opinion

Not

responsible

Advice

BLOG

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Better things to do

Personal responsibility

Personal communications

Bad experience

BLOGGERS

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if? What

35/48

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SADNESS

C’EST LA VIE

RELIEF DOUBT

ANGER

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Devastated,

both emotionally and professionally.

Pretty

bad.

Very

sad.

SADNESS

C’EST LA VIE

RELIEF DOUBT

ANGER

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SADNESS

C’EST LA VIE

RELIEF DOUBT

ANGER

Mad as hell.

I’d do something

drastic [in response].

Pretty peeved. Angry

& upset.

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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.

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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.

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SADNESS

C’EST LA VIE

RELIEF DOUBT

ANGER

It would take an

extreme catastrophe.

How would

that happen?

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BLOG DELETION

%

have deleted a blog

BLOGGER

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%

POST DELETION

delete posts after publication

BLOGGER

Duplicate

Post

“Post Regret”

Too sensitive or

revealing

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%

POST EDITING

edit posts after publication

BLOGGER

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RIGHTS & USE

Creative

Commons (n=13)

Copyright

Statement (n=34)

%

no rights or use statements

at blog or post level

BLOG

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next? what’s

part III

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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)

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DISPATCHES FROM

BLOG PURGATORY

BLOG

reviewing 1700+ blogs listed

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BIBLIOBLOGGERS

Questionnaires

Interviews

Blog Analysis

CV Analysis

BLOGGER

BLOG

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

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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

FEB-MAR-APR-MAY 2012 JUN-JUL-AUG 2012 SEPT-OCT –NOV 2012

LIS FACULTY AND STUDENTS’ FRIENDING AND POKING IN THE SOCIAL SPHERE

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THANK YOU CAROLYN HANK

Email: [email protected]

Phone: (001)514.398.4684

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QUESTIONS?