Beyond the Flow: Scholarly Publications During and After the Digital

Beyond the Flow: Scholarly Publications During and After the Digital

In the wake of the so-called digital revolution numerous attempts have been made to rethink and redesign what scholarly publications can or should be. Beyond the Flow examines the technologies as well as narratives driving this unfolding transformation. However, facing challenges such as the serial crisis, knowledge burying or sudoku research the discourses and practices of scholarly publishing today are mainly shaped by confusion, heterogeneity and uncertainty. By critically interrogating the current state of digital publishing in academia the book asks for how a sustainable post-digital publishing ecology can be imagined. Niels-Oliver Walkowski is a research scientist for digital literacy and research at the University of Luxembourg. Before, he worked for several years at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in research projects related to digital humanities, such as the European-level project Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) or the repository for biographical data from the 19th century (Personendatenrepositorium). His main areas of interest is the impact of computational technologies on humanities research, cinemetrics and computational media analysis, as well as digital scholarly publishing, a topic about which he wrote his PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven.