Academy and the Internet (Digital Formations, Vol. 12)
Contributors: Helen Fay Nissenbaum (Editor); Monroe E. Price (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9780820462035
Subjects: Communication; General; Journalism; Sociology - General; Social Science; Information society; Internet; Social aspects; Sociology
Description: "This book explores the impact of the Internet on scholarly research across and beyond the social sciences. The contributors - leading figures in a broad spectrum of disciplines - explain how their fields of inquiry are being redefined, and what issues of social change are salient as new information technologies increasingly become the subject of scholarly analysis. They have rendered a conceptual photography of how their disciplines are coping with the impact of information technology by covering policy approaches, empirical research, and theoretical questions. Academy & the Internet highlights significant zones of inquiry and provides a critical perspective on the direction each discipline in traveling."--Jacket.