pikas sla07 physicists uses of blogs
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Physicists’ Uses of Blogs
Christina K. PikasSLA PAM Physics Roundtable
June 5, 2007
Note: No faculty liaison talk!
Report from the first Science Blogging Conference
State of the Physics BlogospherePre-2005Post-2005
My upcoming study
Science Blogging Conference
January 20, 2007 in Chapel Hill, NCTopicsBlogging for the benefit of teachersPromoting public understanding of
scienceHow to blogBlogging & controversies in science
Results
Series of primers/basic reviewsSuitable for undergrads?Suitable for us?http://tinyurl.com/yvhrca
How k-12 teachers use blogsTargeting content to requirements
Next Year
Saturday, January 19, 2008TopicsTeaching ScienceScience JournalismDoing science on blogs
Physics Blogosphere Pre-2005
Maybe fewer than 10 active bloggers using blogging software
Many still bloggingDistler (2002- )The Quantum Pontiff (2003- )Not Even Wrong (2004- )
2005
Quantum Diaries ProjectBloggers wanted to continueOthers wanted to comment?
Cosmic VarianceCritical Mass?
After 2005
Maybe ~300 physicist bloggers?Trackbacks on Arxiv
(http://arxiv.org/tb/recent)Many, many comments
My study
How and why do scientists blog?QualitativeContent analysis InterviewsFinishing by 1/08…
Contact Information
Christina K. Pikas, BS, MLS R.E. Gibson Library & Information Center
The Johns Hopkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory
Voice 443.778.4812 (Baltimore) 240.228.4812 (Washington)
E-mail [email protected]