Analysing Academic Knowledge Systems

Scholarly publishing is in a state crisis, and at the same time on the brink of potentially transformative change. This area of our research investigates academic publishing, descriptively as a series of business and technical processes, and analytically as a pivot point in the formal knowledge systems that are at the heart of our society’s understanding of itself and the natural world. For us, the central question for research into academic publishing is that of the immediate past and future shape of our knowledge design processes. Our research analyses the impact upon academic publishing of disruptive changes in our technological, economic, distributional, geographic, interdisciplinary and social relations to knowledge. This investigatory and theoretical work is complemented by the practical interventions of Common Ground Publishing.

References

Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis, ‘Signs of Epistemic Disruption: Transformations in the Knowledge System of the Academic Journal, First Monday, Vol. 14, No.4, 2009. | link

Cope, Bill and Angus Phillips (eds), The Future of the Academic Journal, Woodhead, Cambridge UK, 2009 | link

Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis, The Role of the Internet in Changing Knowledge Ecologies, ARBOR Ciencia, Pensamiento y Cultura (Madrid, Spain), Vol. CLXXXV, No. 737, 2009, pp.521-530. | download

Cope, Bill and Mary Kalantzis, ‘The Social Web: Changing Knowledge Systems in Higher Education’, in Debbie Epstein, Rebecca Boden, Rosemary Deem, Fazal Rizvi and Susan Wright (eds), Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Framing the Future of Higher Education, World Yearbook of Education, Routledge, London, 2008, pp.371-38 | download