The intellectual and social organization of academic fields and the shaping of digital resources
Abstract
This paper looks at disciplinary differences in the production, relevance, and use of three predominant genres of informal scholarly communication on the internet: academic mailing lists; scholarly homepages, and scholar-produced decentralized digital resources. The aim is to contribute to the development of a theoretical framework for understanding and explaining disciplinary differences in the shaping of networked resources. We apply Whitley’s...
Paper Details
Title
The intellectual and social organization of academic fields and the shaping of digital resources
Published Date
Feb 15, 2007
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
115 - 133
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