Comments on: Is scholarly blogging an oxymoron? http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/10/08/is-scholarly-blogging-an-oxymoron/ part of the MSc in E-learning at the University of Edinburgh Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:20:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Grace Elliott http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/10/08/is-scholarly-blogging-an-oxymoron/#comment-24 Grace Elliott Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:48:04 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/?p=50#comment-24 Thanks for this Ania. The article was very interesting. I am definitely re-thinking my views on academic blogging. Thanks for this Ania. The article was very interesting. I am definitely re-thinking my views on academic blogging.

]]> By: Ania Rolińska http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/10/08/is-scholarly-blogging-an-oxymoron/#comment-23 Ania Rolińska Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:47:25 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/?p=50#comment-23 Hi, an interesting article about the value of blogging in academia can be found on The Guardian Website http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/sep/20/academy-scared-of-blogging?INTCMP=SRCH Steve Wheeler also writes about it extensively. I can't find the blog posting right now but once he made a point about blogs (academic blogs) becoming a reliable academic source of information. Quite recently he has posted on why academics/teachers should blog: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2011/10/blogging-about.html Interesting stuff and in my view an opportunity to extend and enhance academic discourse, don't you think? Hi, an interesting article about the value of blogging in academia can be found on The Guardian Website http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2011/sep/20/academy-scared-of-blogging?INTCMP=SRCH
Steve Wheeler also writes about it extensively. I can’t find the blog posting right now but once he made a point about blogs (academic blogs) becoming a reliable academic source of information. Quite recently he has posted on why academics/teachers should blog: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2011/10/blogging-about.html Interesting stuff and in my view an opportunity to extend and enhance academic discourse, don’t you think?

]]> By: Jeremy Keith Knox http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/2011/10/08/is-scholarly-blogging-an-oxymoron/#comment-21 Jeremy Keith Knox Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:22:22 +0000 http://edc11.education.ed.ac.uk/gracee/?p=50#comment-21 I think you raise an interesting point here about the challenge that digital practices, such as blogging, bring to established academic practices. I think it would be useful to think, more specifically, about what you perceive to be the advantages and disadvantages of academic blogging? For me, one of the most profound aspects of the blog is the commenting, which promotes the discussion, sharing, and perhaps construction, of an idea. There is of course reason for caution in the publicising of ideas, and these are highlighted in the two blogs you reference. You mention here an opposition between the perception of blogs as informal, and the published journal as ‘backed up by evidence’. So do you see the blog as a direct challenge to the scholarly publishing? Your reference to multimodality is also intriguing. How do you think the ideas in the Kress and Thomas papers might relate to this ‘academic legitimacy’ of text and image? Your description of being woken early also gets me thinking about how our ‘virtual’ experiences are always permeated by, and enmeshed with, the ‘real’ world around us. Online experiences are never in isolation, and perhaps that makes them richer and more diverse! I think you raise an interesting point here about the challenge that digital practices, such as blogging, bring to established academic practices. I think it would be useful to think, more specifically, about what you perceive to be the advantages and disadvantages of academic blogging? For me, one of the most profound aspects of the blog is the commenting, which promotes the discussion, sharing, and perhaps construction, of an idea. There is of course reason for caution in the publicising of ideas, and these are highlighted in the two blogs you reference.

You mention here an opposition between the perception of blogs as informal, and the published journal as ‘backed up by evidence’. So do you see the blog as a direct challenge to the scholarly publishing? Your reference to multimodality is also intriguing. How do you think the ideas in the Kress and Thomas papers might relate to this ‘academic legitimacy’ of text and image?

Your description of being woken early also gets me thinking about how our ‘virtual’ experiences are always permeated by, and enmeshed with, the ‘real’ world around us. Online experiences are never in isolation, and perhaps that makes them richer and more diverse!

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