The Digital Scholar: Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment

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The Digital Scholar: Academic Communication in Multimedia Environment is written by Irena Vassileva and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3732905691 (ISBN 10) and 9783732905690 (ISBN 13).

The forms and genres of academic communication have changed considerably over the past decades – from standardised ways of producing texts on/for paper to a (less?) standardised way of communication in Web 2.0. Published papers are now available to a greater number of readers, interaction among colleagues can take place in real time via written, audio or visual formats, and it has become much more comfortable for students as well as for those outside the scientific community to access academic information and to contact its authors. It seems, however, that many aspects of academic communication have not yet changed, and its participants – either in the „old“ or in the „new“ generation – are ill-equipped to work within the multimedia context. This volume, therefore, takes a look at academic communication in the multimedia environment, in order to throw light on how these processes are linked to new multimedia affordances, while at the same time encapsulating old genre conventions and participant interaction with the medium.