Jessie Daniels, Polly Thistlethwaite

Being a scholar in the digital era

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers both a road map and a vision of what being a scholar can be when reimagined in the digital era to enliven the public good. It discusses digital innovations in higher education as well as reflecting upon what these mean in an age of austerity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781447329251
• ISBN-10: 1447329252
• Artikelnr.: 44679994

Autorenporträt

Jessie Daniels is Professor at Hunter College and The Graduate Center (CUNY). She is an internationally recognized expert in digital sociology and on the Internet manifestations of racism. Daniels is the author of two books about race and various forms of media. Daniels conceived of JustPublics@365, an initiative intended to reimagine scholarly communication in the digital era for the public good. She is co-founder and editor for the scholarly blog, RacismReview (www.racismreview.com), which she has maintained since 2007. Forbes Magazine named her one of "20 Inspiring Women to Follow on Twitter." You can find her on Twitter: @JessieNYC. Polly Thistlethwaite is Professor and Chief Librarian at The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) where she has worked since 2002. Prior to this, she worked at Colorado State University, Hunter College, New York University, Yale, and the University of Illinois. Polly introduced an institutional repository to CUNY for scholars to self-archive their work to make it accessible to readers around the world. Her partnership with the JustPublics@365 project that promotes scholarship for the public good constitutes an inevitable alliance of confluent missions and sensibilities.