Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Notes for Tri-Co Symposium presentation on blogging
Blogging as a research tool (primary source, Jill Walker and Torill Mortensen's "Blogging Thoughts")
- blogging is similar to doing research
- filter information and make selections
- comment on that information
- show connections between items
- professionals in many fields use blogs as
- reflections on their work
- a way to follow developments in their field
- to publish ideas
- a blog straddles the gap between the process of writing and publication; of private and public
- publishing academic research thoughts in a blog reaches a different audience than scholarly journal articles
- gets research out of the "ivory tower"
- usurpation of the traditional academic hierarchy: an adjunct can be on the same level as an endowed chair
- space where debates can take place among academics and non-academics
- academics can reconnect with the public--example: science blogging the evolution vs. creationism debate
- jill/txt
- Easily Distracted (Tim Burke of Swarthmore)
- Crooked Timber (group blog of which Henry Farrell is a member)
- Adventures in Ethics and Science (really, any of the blogs at scienceblogs)
- bgblogging (Barbara Ganley at Middlebury writes about research and teaching)
