Kyle Jones sent this to me:
http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2962/2580
Kjellberg, Sara. “I am a blogging researcher: Motivations for blogging in a scholarly context” First Monday[Online], Volume 15 Number 8 (14 July 2010)
Kjellberg conducted in-depth interviews with researchers who blog for the study. Take a look at the findings and discussion for some strong evidence for sharing and blogging the research process online as a researcher. Part of the conclusion:
The analysis brings out at least three motivations for being a blogging researcher: the blog helps the researcher share with others, it provides a room for creativity, and it makes the researcher feel connected.
I had similar results from analyzing the data from the 2005 “early adopting” librarian bloggers study I did for my dissertation. The model looks like this:
Find more here:
Download the whole thing here:
http://tametheweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/stephens-mfinal.pdf
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