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Since the dawn of the modern age, scholarship--book learning--has been the creature of the printing press. By the advent of the 21st century, academic texts were rapidly migrating from print to screen. Australian education scholars Cope, Mary Kalantzis (both now at U. of Illinois-Urbana-Campaign) and Liam Magee (RMIT U., Melbourne) explore some of the consequences of this change. Do digital technologies of representation and communication reproduce the knowledge systems of the half-millennium-long history of the modern university, they ask, or do they disrupt and transform them? They focus on the kinds of relationships to knowledge and culture that are emerging in the era of pervasively interconnected computing, a construct they call the social web. Distributed by Neal-Schuman. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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This book addresses the question of how knowledge is currently documented, and may soon be documented in the context of what it calls ‘semantic publishing’. This takes two forms: a more narrowly and technically defined ‘semantic web’; as well as a broader notion of semantic publishing. This book examines the ways in which knowledge is represented in journal articles and books. By contrast, it goes on to explore the potential impacts of semantic publishing on academic research and authorship. It sets this in the context of changing knowledge ecologies: the way research is done; the way knowledge is represented and; the modes of knowledge access used by researchers, students and the general public.Provides an introduction to the ‘semantic web’ and semantic publishing for readers outside the field of computer scienceDiscusses the relevance of the ‘semantic web’ and semantic publishing more broadly, and its application to academic researchExamines the changing ecologies of knowledge production
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