the scholar blogs or today, tomorrow: practices and perceptions of value, impact and stewardship
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Presentation slides from a talk given at ICPSR (University of Michigan), August 14, 2012TRANSCRIPT
THE SCHOLAR BLOGS OF TODAY, TOMORROW?
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
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
FEB-MAR-APR-MAY 2012 JUN-JUL-AUG 2012 SEPT-OCT –NOV 2012
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