Nicholas Jankowski

Visiting Fellow, e-Humanities Group,
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)
editor e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice
co-editor New Media & Society

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iCS/Oii Symposium Panel - Scholarly Communication: Changes, Challenges & Initiatives
Author Statement

Scholarly Publishing: Surviving the Crisis While Contributing to Discourse
Since time immemorial, scholarly publishing has experienced tension, in Marxian terms, between its economic base and its ‘superstructure’ concerned with ideas. The tension seems particularly acute during the current period of economic crisis and the so-called ‘digital revolution’. On the one hand, publishing enterprises are reorganizing and collapsing; on the other hand, the same enterprises are experimenting with new ways to prepare, present and distribute scholarship. Many questions relate to this arena of tension; three are of particular importance:

- To what extent can digital innovation salvage an industry aspiring to contribute to knowledge while based on commercial concerns?

- How are formal and informal modes of communication blending, contributing to transformation of the meaning of scholarship; more specifically, what are the dangers and the affordances to incorporating social media into scholarly discourse?

- To what extent do differences in the cultures of academic disciplines contribute to embracement of innovation in scholarly publishing? In light of such differences, what publishing innovations merit support in facilitating the ideal of scholarly discourse?

Publications

Tatum, Clifford and Nicholas Jankowski. 2012. "Beyond Open Access: a Framework for Openness in Scholarly Communication." In Virtual Knowledge, edited by Paul Wouters, Anne Beaulieu, Andrea Scharnhorst, and Sally Wyatt, MIT Press.

Jankowski, Nicholas, Andrea Scharnhorst, Clifford Tatum, and Zuotian Tatum. 2011. Enhancing Scholarly Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Developing Hybrid Monographs in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Utrecht: SURFfoundation Technical Report (available at SSRN), http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1982380.

Beaulieu, Anne and Paul Wouters. 2009. "E-research as Intervention." In e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 54-69. New York: Routledge.

Schneider, Steven, Kirsten Foot, and Paul Wouters. 2009. "Taking Web Archiving Seriously." In e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 205-221. New York: Routledge.

Tatum, Clifford and Michelle Lafrance. 2009. "Wikipedia as Distributed Knowledge Laboratory: The Case of Neoliberalism." In e-Research: Transformations in Scholarly Practice, edited by Nicholas Jankowski, 310-327. New York: Routledge.

Jankowski, Nicholas and Martine van Selm. 2008. "Internet-based political communication research: Illustrations, challenges & innovations." Javnost - The Public, 15 (2).

Foot, Kirsten, Steven Schneider, Randolph Kluver, Michael Xenos, and Nicholas Jankowski. 2007. "Comparing web production practices across electoral web spheres." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 243-260. London: Routledge.

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2007. "Editorial special issue: Exploring e-Science: An Introduction." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12 (2).

Jankowski, Nicholas, Randolph Kluver, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider. 2007. "Introducing the Internet and Elections Project." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 3-15. London: Routledge.

Jankowski, Nicholas and Martine van Selm. 2007. "Research ethics in a virtual world. Guidelines and illustrations." In Media technologies and democracy in an enlarged Europe. The intellectual work of the 2007 European media and communication doctoral summer school, edited by Nico Carpentier, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Maren Hartmann, Peeter Vihalemm, Bart Cammaerts, and Hannu Nieminen, 274-284. Tartu: Tartu University press.

Kluver, Randolph, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and eds, Schneider. 2007. The Internet and National Elections. A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. London: Routledge.

Schneider, Steven, Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, and Kirsten Foot. 2007. "Epilogue: reflecting on elections and the web." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 261-264. London: Routledge.

van Os, Renee, Carlo Hagemann, Gerrit Voerman, and Nicholas Jankowski. 2007. "The Netherlands: party and candidate websites during the 2004 European Parliament election campaign." In The Internet and National Elections. A comparative study of web campaigning, edited by Randolph Kluver, Nicholas Jankowski, Kirsten Foot, and Steven Schneider, 43-59. London: Routledge.

Presentations

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2009. "The contours and challenges of e-research." Paper presented at Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on e-Social Science, Cologne, Germany, June 24-26, 2009.

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2007. "Internet studies and e-science: New tools and concepts for research." 2007, October 18. Vancouver, Canada.

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2007. "From Internet Research to e-Science & Back Again: Clarifying Concepts, Illustrating Differences, Considering Integration." 2007, October 3. Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2007. "Internet Research & e-Science: Comparing and Contrasting." 2007, December 1. Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2007. "Media Studies: Potential Testing Ground for e-Research Initiatives." 2007, December 10-12. London, UK.

Jankowski, Nicholas. 2007. "The Context & Claims of e-Science." 2007, June 22-23. Milan, Italy.