Tuesday, October 4, 2011

The state of the Geoblogosphere – geoscience communication in the social web

Science blogs are new and rapidly evolving media in the social web. In the last years, several hundred geoscience professionals and students have started their own Earth science blogs. Serious concerns exist about the credibility of scientific blogs but until now, no info has been published on the geoblogosphere’s motivation and the writer’s societal and scientific backgrounds. Here we present data from an online survey with 78 participants and from analysis of more than 200 Earth science blogs.


Full article here: http://www.geonetzwerk.org/2011/10/04/the-state-of-the-geoblogosphere-geoscience-communication-in-the-social-web/

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