The sociology of the academic blogosphere
January 7, 2007 7:46 am blogs and bloggingIn “Against Phalloblogocentrism,” a provocative piece at Inside Higher Education, Scott McLemee writes about the nature of conversation carried out among bloggers in academic disciplines, especailly the humanities. It raises questions about bloggers' influence and gender, the role of anonymity, and the persistence of the old boy network in the blogosphere. My sense is that things are different, perhaps much different, in the library blog world. For someone with approrpiate resources, McLemee identifies issues well worth a research study. If it were replicated in different disciplines we would be able to discern overall patterns across disciplines and/or discipline-specific differences. We could also look at the factors that account for those differences.











