Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University

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Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University

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Teresa M. Harrison - Editor
Timothy Stephen - Editor

SUNY series in Computer-Mediated Communication

Price: $60.50
Hardcover - 480 pages

Release Date: April 1996

ISBN10: 0-7914-2853-2
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2853-5

Price: $33.95
Paperback - 480 pages

Release Date: April 1996

ISBN10: 0-7914-2854-0
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2854-2

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Summary

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.

"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 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.

"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

Teresa M. Harrison and Timothy Stephen are Associate Professors of Communication in the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. They 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."

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 Guédon

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

Related Subjects

Communication
Internet

31019/31020(WDE//)

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