Science bloggers on Hypotheses.org : Communities and co-authorship
Résumé
The diversity of science blogs that emerged in the 2000s, their success and longevity, has
generated a great deal of research. Blogging platforms have been studied more from the
perspective of communication between layperson and expert than from the perspective of
interdisciplinary collaboration and community building. The belief that blogs are personal
objects hide the fact that a lot of them are in fact written by more than one hand.
We will present here part of the work done on the platform “hypotheses.org”. Created in 2008,
in France, today it hosts several thousand academic blogs in Europe covering all areas of the
humanities and social sciences. Our corpus includes 389,089 posts written since the opening of
the platform by 12,893 different authors on 3540 blogs.
We studied the evolution of authors' co-presence in blogs and mapped clusters in order to
understand the practice of collaboration or cooperation over three different four-year periods.
Indeed, these practices vary. In some periods authors participate in several blogs gathered
around a field of study or an academic discipline. But multi-author blogs can also exist around
questions of researcher practice (what methodology to adopt for the survey, or in their thesis)
because the authors share a belief in the potential of new digital tools for research. In some
cases they also gather around the hope that blogs and digital tools will allow a transformation
of research institutions (evaluation in particular) and of the positioning of each researcher in
relation to their work. Hence the importance of academic blogs on reflexivity, methodology or
epistemology in the early days. The study of these networks allows us to see how, in order to
reach a wider public, researchers make themselves and their 'values' visible to their peers, and
can thus come together and cross disciplinary boundaries.
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