{"id":9004,"date":"2014-01-29T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2014-01-29T09:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T14:00:49","slug":"uncertain-dots-academic-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/29\/uncertain-dots-academic-blogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncertain Dots, Academic Blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a comment I made on Twitter about the annoyance of doing merit evaluation paperwork led to some back-and-forth with Rhett Allain and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackPhysicists\">National Society of Black Physicists<\/a> Twitter account about whether blogs can or should count toward academic evaluation. This seemed like a good topic for another video hangout with me and Rhett, which we did yesterday. Unfortunately, there were some technical issues with the hangout, which delayed the start and didn&#8217;t allow live Q&amp;A, but we did get video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BIMxOsZ4gk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(The camera appears to be on just me for most of this, so it&#8217;s largely a hangout between me and Rhett&#8217;s disembodied voice&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>The lack of live input from others is a little unfortunate&#8211; we tried and failed to line up somebody with a much different opinion to join us on video. We both basically end up taking the same view&#8211; our blogs our something kind of separate from work, that we do on our own. When that leads to more traditional scholarly sorts of things&#8211; speaking invitations, reprints in magazines or journals, etc.&#8211; I cite those, but I don&#8217;t cite the blog itself. I know there are people who cite their blogs as part of their scholarly portfolio, as it were, but neither of us do, so we can&#8217;t say much about that.<\/p>\n<p>The NSBP tweeter sent us an article this morning about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidehighered.com\/news\/2014\/01\/29\/international-studies-association-proposes-bar-editors-blogging\">proposal by the International Studies Association to ban its editors from blogging<\/a>, which might&#8217;ve been good fodder for discussion had we had it yesterday. Though I think it probably speaks less to academic attitudes about blogging than to what happens when lazy lawyers try to head off a Henry Gee incident&#8211; it&#8217;s much easier to ban blogging outright than to define clear standards for appropriate online behavior.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the video hangout for the week. We&#8217;ll probably do this again, and suggestions for topics would be welcome. Or if you&#8217;d like to come on video and revisit this issue from a different perspective, we might be able to arrange that. Assuming we can get the technology sorted, anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, a comment I made on Twitter about the annoyance of doing merit evaluation paperwork led to some back-and-forth with Rhett Allain and the National Society of Black Physicists Twitter account about whether blogs can or should count toward academic evaluation. This seemed like a good topic for another video hangout with me and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2014\/01\/29\/uncertain-dots-academic-blogs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncertain Dots, Academic Blogs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,7,11,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-blogs","category-physics","category-science","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}