Blogging PhD research and what happens next – presentation (an attempt of zen :) for the panel “New modes of scholarly communication: blogs, wikis, and web2.0 in academia” at Berlin 6 Open Access conference, November 11-13 2008, Dusseldorf, Germany.
In the talk I decided to talk about my experiences of blogging research to make it as relevant as possible to other researchers, so I focused primarily on connections between it and the process of growing ideas and turning them into a publication. It doesn’t give a good overview of blogging in respect to research methods and methodologies (some readable insight on it is here).
Links for more background on parts of the talk:
- Process of growing ideas: from fuzzy feelings to finished results
- Fuzzy ideas: awareness and articulation
- Sense-making
- Turning into an outcome
- Issues related to doing networked research
- Blogging research: attribution and ownership of ideas
- Bloggers as public intellectuals and writing about them in a research report
- Paper: Blending blogging into an academic text (it discusses blogging from a methodological perspective; relevant in this case for the discussion about research quality issues and ethical challenges of studying bloggers)
I know it bugs for being turned into a readable paper. Will work on that after finishing the dissertation (soon, submitting first draft as a whole in three weeks!), but any comments on where it makes sense to publish is are very welcome.
Tags: academic, awareness, blog writing, methodology, sense-making, writing
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Hi Lilia,
I watched your presentation in Dusseldorf and loved it. See my short note on my blog about it: http://www.edaktik.de/2008/11/beyond-blahblah-blogging-as-phd-research/