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This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Blogs as scholarship, Neo-pragmatism + sociocultural theory Who will lose and who will gain power if traditional forms lose prominence? What scholarly social practices and shared beliefs do traditional forms of scholarly communication maintain and represent?, Changing forms of legal scholarship: It's not really about the blog Fall 2007: Descriptive literature about blogs as scholarship is based on personal opinion and non-systematic observation, with few exceptions Theoretical frameworks through which to explore the questions suggested by the existing literature Positivism, Boundary objects Are bloggers boundary objects? Do blogs build community; are they useful for soliciting comments on early drafts or rough ideas?, Neo-pragmatism + sociocultural theory How is the definition of scholarship determined within the community? Are blogs part of a computer-mediated Web-based emerging system for establishing scholarly authority?, Boundary objects Are bloggers boundary objects? What are the essential features of blogs with respect to post length, temporality, style and audience size?, Actor-network theory Do these shifts threaten to disintegrate and reform the scholarly communication network? Are blogs only one effect of a shift within academe towards shorter, more open forms of disintermediated communication?, Neo-pragmatism + sociocultural theory Scholarly communication can not be studied separately from its tools. What perspectives and viewpoints do traditional scholarly forms mediate and how are they different from those mediated by blogs?, Information behavior/practice How do institutional practices formalize rules concerning what is proper scholarship? What are the existing forms of scholarship with which blogs compete or are complementary?