Overview

This book explores the various ways in which computer networking, and more specifically the Internet, is changing the practices, the structure, and the products of academic scholarship. It considers research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge across a range of disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences in order to identify particular uses of networking that will come to constitute the academic world of the future. The contributors consider such themes as how networking and particular software environments can be used to support inquiry within research specialties and how scholars in diverse disciplines respond to the availability of new networked channels of scholarly communication. In the context of education, they argue that networking can reconfigure the process of learning, encompassing new audiences, new relationships with teachers, and new learning skills adapted for the network environment. The products of such new configurations are also discussed. The future of electronic journal publication is considered by innovators who have designed some of the first experiments in refereed electronic journal publication. Finally, the new responsibilities and roles of the academic library and academic publishers in a networked environment are debated.

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Author:   Teresa M. Harrison ,  Timothy Stephen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.617kg
ISBN:  

9780791428542

ISBN 10:   0791428540
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   04 April 1996
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION Computer Networking, Communication, and Scholarship Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen PART II: ISSUES IN COMPUTER NETWORKING AND SCHOLARSHIP How Is the Medium the Message: Notes on the Design of Networked Communication Peter Lyman Institutional and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital Library Brian Kahin Assessing the Costs of Technology: Contructing Scholarly Services in Today's Network Environment Timothy Stephen and Teresa M. Harrison PART III: COMPUTER NETWORKING, RESEARCH, AND ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES A. Using Computer Network for Research Computer Networking and Textual Sources in the Humanities Susan Hockey Cooperative and Collaborative Mediated Research Duncan Sanderson How Do You Get a Hundred Strangers to Agree?: Computer Mediated Communication and Collaboration Fay Sudweeks and Sheizaf Rafaeli Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality John Unsworth The Multifaceted and Novel Nature of Using Cyber-Texts as Research Data Laura J. Gurak B. Moving Academic Disciplines Online Computer Networking in Ornithology Jack P. Hailman Roadmap to Scholarly Electronic Communication and Publishing at the American Mathematical Society David L. Rodgers, Kevin W. Curnow, Drury R. Burton, Greg S. Ullmann, William B. Woolf The Labyrinth: An Electronic Information Network for Medieval Studies Deborah Everhart PART IV: USING COMPUTER NETWORKS FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING A. Networking and Higher Education Online Education: The Future Linda Harasim Hypermedia and Higher Education J. L. Lemke Equal Access to Computer Networks for Students and Scholars with Disabilities Sheryl E. Burgstahler B. Networking in the Classroom Medieval Misfits: An Undergraduate Discussion List Carolyn P. Schriber VICE in REST William D. Graziadei The Solidarity Network: Universities, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Labor Studies in Canada Jeff Taylor Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide-Area Multiple-User Synchronus Discussions Michael Day, Eric Crump, Rebeca Rickly PART V: USING COMPUTER NETWORKS TO DISSEMINATE KNOWLEDGE A. Electronic Academic Journals on Computer Networks Dimensions of Electronic Journals Brian Gaines Electronic Academic Journals: From Disciplines to ""Seminars""? Jean-Claude Guedon The Electronic Journal and Its Implications for the Electronic Library Cliff McKnight, Andrew Dillon, Brian Shackel B. Disseminating and Archiving Network Information The Role of Academic Libraries in the Dissemination of Scholarly Information in the Electronic Environment Lyman Ross, Paul Philbin, Merri Beth Lavagnino, Albert Joy The Body in the Virtual Library: Rethinking Scholarly Communication Kenneth Arnold Equality in Access to Network Information by Scholars with Disabilities Tom McNulty Building New Tools for the Twenty-First-Century University: Providing Acess to Visual Information David L. Austin PART VI: NAVIGATING THE NETWORK: AN INTRODUCTION A Short Primer for Communicating on the Global Net John December List of Contributors Index"

Reviews

"""I think this book is quite unique in that it focuses on the intersection of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and the academy. The topic is not only crucial to the university of the twenty-first century but it is crucial to the evolution of all social institutions worldwide."" -- Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University ""The breadth of examples and case studies represented here make this book of compelling interest for anyone interested in CMC and networking, their impacts on scholarship and education (including the institutions of education, such as the journal, the library, and the university press), and in philosophy of technology as such. I expect this will quickly become one of the three or four volumes which constitute standard reading in the field of CMC."" -- Charles Ess, Drury College"

I think this book is quite unique in that it focuses on the intersection of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and the academy. The topic is not only crucial to the university of the twenty-first century but it is crucial to the evolution of all social institutions worldwide. -- Stephen Doheny-Farina, Clarkson University The breadth of examples and case studies represented here make this book of compelling interest for anyone interested in CMC and networking, their impacts on scholarship and education (including the institutions of education, such as the journal, the library, and the university press), and in philosophy of technology as such. I expect this will quickly become one of the three or four volumes which constitute standard reading in the field of CMC. -- Charles Ess, Drury College

Author Information

"Teresa M. Harrison is Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen are co-directors of Comserve, an online scholarly service for faculty and students in communications studies, for which they won the Council of Communication Libraries' 1993 ""Prize for Excellence in Information Services."" Timothy Stephen is Associate Professor of Communication in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen are co-directors of Comserve, an online scholarly service for faculty and students in communications studies, for which they won the Council of Communication Libraries' 1993 ""Prize for Excellence in Information Services."""

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