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Knowledge Production Beyond The Codex? New Explorations of the Scholarly Monograph in Contemporary Digital Culture
What is the future of the scholarly book?
The function of the scholarly book
• Communication to one’s peers: Access
• Claim findings• Quality: peer review & branding• Trust and Preservation• Reward and reputation
Methodology
• Critical Praxis
– Theory– Practice
• Openness, fluidity, remix• Foucault meets New Materialism
Critical Praxis - Theory
• What is Praxis?• What is Critical Praxis?• How is this related to doing a PhD in
the Humanities?• How is this related to the Digital and
Digital Media?
• Praxis here relates to the process of bringing ideas, ideologies or theories into practice. In other words, it refers to how theory gets embodied in our practices.
• Critical praxis then refers to the awareness of, and the critical reflection on how our ideas get to be embodied in our practices, making it possible to transform them.
Critical Praxis and the PhD
• The reproduction of social identities• Subjectification effects• rethink ‘traditional skills’ and
established research practices, • Critical Praxis and Critical Literacies• Print-based power structure
Openness, fluidity, remix
• Open Research• Open Access• Open Media: access and re-use• Collaboration and community-
building