Using non academic research in a dissertation
I've been wondering if I'm going to have problems using well known bloggers in the literature review section of my dissertation. Well I just found the following statement in the 2007 Horizon Report that I thought I'd share:
"The notions of collective intelligence and mass
amateurization are pushing the boundaries of
scholarship. Amateur scholars are weighing in
on scholarly debates with reasoned if not always
expert opinions, and websites like the Wikipedia
have caused the very notion of what an expert is
to be reconsidered. Hobbyists and enthusiasts
are engaged in data collection and field studies
that are making real contributions in a great
many fields at the same time that they are encouraging
debate on what constitutes scholarly
workâand who should be doing it. Still to be
resolved is the question of how compatible the
consensus sapientum and the wisdom of the
academy will be."
posted by Andrew Pass @ 2:07 PM
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"Independent scholar" shows a little more respect than the diminutives "amateur", "hobbyist", "enthusiast".
The problem is that any reviewer of your dissertation has to have access to the original works you site. With blogs this is a problem. Blogs change. They disappear, a little like ghosts.
The scholar who expertly handles ghosts is well on a way to solving the problems of academia.
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