{"id":32888,"date":"2014-03-27T00:13:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T00:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theolduvaigorge-why-do-academics-blog-its-not\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:57:27","slug":"theolduvaigorge-why-do-academics-blog-its-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theolduvaigorge-why-do-academics-blog-its-not\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32888 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/theolduvaigorge-why-do-academics-blog-its-not\/attachment\/32889\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n2yzi7YQJO1r46foao1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theolduvaigorge.tumblr.com\/post\/80771102994\/why-do-academics-blog-its-not-for-public\">theolduvaigorge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/blog\/2013\/dec\/02\/why-do-academics-blog-research?utm_content=buffer01416&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\"><em><strong>Why do academics blog? It\u2019s not for public outreach, research shows<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/h1>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"stand-first-alone\" id=\"stand-first\"><em>Blogging is touted as <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"30b12a32-fd72-4b2e-8fad-4df409de3da1\">bridge<\/span> between academia and the <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"d01d4824-a469-4af1-a4b5-47b767c9e48c\">world but<\/span> study finds it functions more like <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"866de94d-b4c1-42d3-819e-ee44a78d84ec\">global common room<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"stand-first-alone\">\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"d6d8ae46-4265-46e2-bd01-9141ec0e245b\">by<\/span>\u00a0Pat Thomson and Inger Mewburn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stand-first-alone\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/academics\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Academics\">Academics<\/a>\u00a0are now urged to blog. We are told that having to write for ordinary readers will help us to write in plain English, clarify our ideas, enhance our <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"58ebd1bd-df73-4add-ac5a-4d5d45c17454\">reputations<\/span> and expand our knowledge as well as our audience.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/blogging\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Blogging\">Blogging<\/a>\u00a0is presented to us as a way to bridge the apparent divide between academia and everyone else.<\/div>\n<p>We both blog and unlike many of our <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"dce05337-b3fc-450b-88e8-1ed08f606f40\">colleagues we<\/span> don\u2019t need to be convinced that it is worthwhile. <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"8239d5f9-d7e8-4551-b9d0-ad555346ac9a\">However we<\/span> were less convinced that the academic bloggers we encountered were all in it for reasons of public outreach, or to refine their thinking, and we certainly weren\u2019t convinced that they wanted fame. So we set out to have a preliminary look at what was going on in academic blogs.<\/p>\n<p>We had a number of challenges in setting up this small-scale study. We had no funding so interviews were out; we had to rely on published blogs alone. And we had to decide what counted as an academic blog. This was not as easy as you might think, given the growth of professional and managerial roles offered inside universities today, which often involve some kind of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/research\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Research\">research<\/a>\u00a0or teaching. We opted for the blogger who stated an institutional affiliation, had some kind of academic purpose and was connected to other academic blogs. We called the bloggers who weren\u2019t professors,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/lecturers\" title=\"More from the Guardian on Lecturers\">lecturers<\/a>\u00a0or fellows \u2018para-academics\u2019. We couldn\u2019t get a representative sample as there is no handy index of blogs, the numbers change all the time, and frankly, there were just too many. And because we speak English, our choices had to be blogs we could actually read.<\/p>\n<p>By using various online listings of academic blogs, we eventually compiled a list of 100 we could use as a sample set. Of these, 49 were from the UK and 40 from the US, five from Canada and six from Australia. 80 were by teaching and researching academics, 14 from para-academics and six from doctoral researchers\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/blog\/2013\/dec\/02\/why-do-academics-blog-research?utm_content=buffer01416&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">read more<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/higher-education-network\/blog\/2013\/dec\/02\/why-do-academics-blog-research?utm_content=buffer01416&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">The Guardian<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>theolduvaigorge: Why do academics blog? It\u2019s not for public outreach, research shows Blogging is touted as bridge between academia and the world but study finds it functions more like global common room by\u00a0Pat Thomson and Inger Mewburn \u201cAcademics\u00a0are now urged to blog. 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