Open AccessAcademic blogging: academic practice and academic identity
Author(s) -
Gill Kirkup
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
london review of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1474-8479
pISSN - 1474-8460
DOI - 10.1080/14748460903557803
Subject(s) - identity (music) , sociology , function (biology) , sample (material) , academic freedom , higher education , media studies , scale (ratio) , public relations , pedagogy , political science , law , chemistry , chromatography , quantum mechanics , physics , biology , acoustics , evolutionary biology
This paper describes a small-scale study which investigates the role of blogging in professional academic practice in higher education. It draws on interviews with a sample of academics (scholars, researchers and teachers) who have blogs and on the author's own reflections on blogging to investigate the function of blogging in academic practice and its contribution to academic identity. It argues that blogging offers the potential of a new genre of accessible academic production which could contribute to the creation of a new twenty-first century academic identity with more involvement as a public intellectual.
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