モノグラフ・サヴァイヴァル : アメリカにおける学術出版の電子化と「人文学の危機」
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This paper criticizes the current situation of electronic scholarly publishing in the United States from a cultural politics point of view. In most of the humanities, monographs are the central media. Being their main publishers, the university presses have always been inseparable from the knowledge production system. However, the commercialization of the presses accelerated rapidly after the 1990s. This has not only made it difficult for untenured young scholars to publish monographs, but has also had a negative impact on the cycle of knowledge production. To solve the issue, various possibilities of electronic publishing have been discussed. The History E-Book project is expected to play a central role. This large-scale project has participants from many historical studies associations and leading university presses, as well as considerable foundation support. In this paper, I would like to present an outline of the project, which is led by the well-known historian Robert Darnton. It will become clear that Darnton has only replaced paper with electronic forms, without any structural changes. In other words, he has automatically shifted the structure of the present knowledge production system based on a codex to cyberspace. The fundamental element which forms the monograph is the idea of "work," a coherent concept or idea unique to the author. This "work" is secured by the codex as physical form. How then can the electronic monographs with no physical form sustain the idea of "work"? Furthermore, given the fact that the significance of humanities, including historical studies, has declined remarkably in the United States in the 1990s, the History E-Book project is also expected to redress the "humanities crisis." However, the project has no such potential. The current situation should be understood as a sign of conflict caused by changes in the constellation of modern knowledge.
- 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会の論文
- 2003-01-31
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