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How and why physicists and chemists use blogs

Pikas, Christina K. How and why physicists and chemists use blogs., 2008 [Preprint]

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This study examined how and why chemists and physicists blog. Two qualitative methods were used: content analysis of blog and “about” pages, and in-depth responsive interviews with chemists and physicists who maintain blogs. Analysis of the data yielded several cross-cutting themes that provide a window into how physicists and chemists use their blogs, and what value they receive from maintaining a blog and participating in a blogging community. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for supporting scientists’ work.

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	blogs, social computing, scholarly communication
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW. B. Information use and sociology of information > BZ. None of these, but in this section. L. Information technology and library technology > LJ. Software.
Depositing user:	Christina K. Pikas
Date deposited:	11 Mar 2010
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:16
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14348

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