Innovative Academic Infrastructures: Digitalization, Collaboration, and Experimentation - II

Abstract

This open panel brings together scholars experimenting with innovative academic infrastructures in the form of digital scholarship and alternative research spaces inside and outside the university. The panel seeks to map novel configurations of knowledge production and distribution through different writing genres, media technologies, data sharing and archiving platforms, funding models, hiring and recruitment processes, publishing initiatives, and collaborative research projects. We are particularly interested in explorations and interventions that transcend or complicate both intellectual extractivism and the perpetuation of academic peripheries in post-colonial settings. We also welcome papers that critically examine o the creation and reproduction of unequal epistemological geographies or those that explore the increasing use of scholarly metrics for career evaluation and job placement. We hope to spark an optimist and honest conversation about diverse academic futures in view of the ongoing corporatization and precarization of Higher-Ed in the global North and the longstanding patron-client bureaucratization of academia in the global South. This panel invites both empirical investigations and policy initiatives that allow us to develop transnational and comparative approaches to the study of academic infrastructures and human capacity building. The panel's goal is to map ways in which scholars across life cycles and regions have been able to open up spaces for new academic materialities, opportunities, practices, and possibilities.

Individual Presentations

• Analyzing ‘the Screenome’: A New Framework for Hyper-Contextual Critical Digital Research - Andrew Arthur Fitzgerald, Stanford University

• Tapping into Science: University Research Alliances, Technological Breadth, and New Product Development - Kremena Slavova, Collegio Universitario de Estudios Financieros, Madrid; Simcha Jong, Leiden University

• Two Interactive Roles Boost China's Science Popularization: The Investigation of Scientist and the Public - Shu Xue, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development; Guangxi He, Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development; Wenxia Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• From the Communication of Science and Technology to the Appropriation of Knowledge in Intercultural Contexts - Xenia Anaid Rueda, Tecnológico de Monterrey; Juan Carlos García Cruz, Cátedras CONACYT/ UAM Xochimilco

Session Organizers

• Alberto Eduardo Morales, University of California Irvine

• Maka Suarez, Kaleidos - Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography

• Jorge Nunez, Kaleidos - Center for Interdisciplinary Ethnography