No less than a revolutionary transformation of the research enterprise is underway. This transformation extends beyond the natural sciences, where 'e-research' has become the modus operandi, and is penetrating the social sciences and humanities, sometimes with differences in accent and label. Many suggest that the very essence of scholarship in these areas is changing. The everyday procedures and practices of traditional forms of scholarship are affected by these and other features of e-research. This volume, which features renowned scholars from across the globe who are active in the social sciences and humanities, provides critical reflection on the overall emergence of e-research, particularly on its adoption and adaptation by the social sciences and humanities.
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The Contours and Challenges of e-Research |
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PART II Conceptualization |
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Towards a Sociology of e-Research: Shaping Practice and Advancing Knowledge |
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e-Research as Intervention |
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Developing the UK-based e-Social Science Research Program |
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e-Research and Scholarly Community in the Humanities |
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The Rise of e-Science in Asia. Dreams and Realities for Social Science Research: Case Studies of Singapore and South Korea |
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Creating Shared Understanding across Distance: Distance Collaboration across Cultures In R&D |
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Moving from Small Science to Big Science: Social and Organizational Impediments to Large Scale Data Sharing |
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Visualization in e-Social Science |
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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Questions: Visualization Techniques for Social Science Discovery in Computational Spaces |
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PART VI Data Preservation and Reuse |
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Web Archiving as e-Research |
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The Promise of Data in e-Research: Many Challenges, Multiple Solutions, Diverse Outcomes |
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Naming, Documenting and Contributing to e-Science |
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PART VII Access and Intellectual Property |
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Open Access to e-Research |
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Intellectual Property in the Context of e-Science |
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Situated Innovations in e-Social Science |
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Wikipedia as Distributed Knowledge Laboratory: The Case of Neoliberalism |
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Nicholas W. Jankowski is Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Radboud University Nijmegen, and Visiting Fellow at the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2004 he was Visiting Fellow at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He has been involved in the study of new media and research methodology since the mid-1970s, and is co-editor of New Media & Society.
