2. Theses
• Blogs are a specific type of online discourse
• Science blogs/scholarly blogs are a well
established type of blogs with different
subtypes
• Blogs can translate properties of scholarly
discourses of the pre-web era into a
hypertextual universe of discourse
27. Contexts: Academic
publishing on the web
• Commercial Online Journals
• Open Access Journals
• Wikis
• Individual Sites and Publications
• Specialized Search Engines (Google
Scholar)
28. Platforms and portals
• •
ResearchBlogging.org Nature Network Blogs
• •
ScienceBlogs.com GermanResearchBlogging.org
(zur Zeit nicht erreichbar)
• Postgenomic
• The Academic Blog Portal
• wissensblogs
• Scientific Blogging
• Discover Blogs
• Nature Blogs
29. Reputation
• Thesis: Translation between scientific
reputation and blogger reputation is
possible
• Scientific reputation and blogger reputation
rely on similar mechanisms
• The blogosphere allows scholarly micro
public spheres
30. Scientific exchange
• Thesis: Blogs facilitate scholarly
communication on “fluid subjects”
• Blogs allow asynchronous open
communication between personal talk and
journals/congresses
• Blogs can serve as open research journals
31. Academic teaching
• Support of learning communities
• Support of self directed learning by
students
• Documentation of work for master theses
and doctoral dissertations
32. Public science
• Direct dialogue between scholars/scientists
and the general public
• Short circuiting of existing publication
channels
• Agenda setting/PR for science
33. Future: Blogosphere,
social media, life web
• Microblogs and life streams take over
• Social networks and blogs are integrated
• Blurring of the border between posts and
magazines
• Internal aggregation; blogs as knowledge
repositories
34. References and
Discussions
• Alex Halavais: quot;Scholarly Blogging: Moving
Toward the Visible Collegequot; (Amazon)
• Wissenswerkstatt – tag
“Wissenschaftsblog”
• Was sind gute Wissenschaftsblogs?