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| Preface | ||
| Computer Networking, Communication, and Scholarship | 3 | |
| How Is the Medium the Message? Notes on the Design of Networked Communication | 39 | |
| Institutional and Policy Issues in the Development of the Digital Library | 53 | |
| Assessing the Costs of Technopoly: Constructing Scholarly Services in Today's Network Environment | 67 | |
| Computer Networking and Textual Sources in the Humanities | 83 | |
| Cooperative and Collaborative Mediated Research | 95 | |
| How Do You Get a Hundred Strangers to Agree?: Computer Mediated Communication and Collaboration | 115 | |
| Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality | 137 | |
| The Multifaceted and Novel Nature of Using Cyber-Texts as Research Data | 151 | |
| Computer Networking in Ornithology | 167 | |
| Roadmap to Scholarly Electronic Communication and Publishing at the American Mathematical Society | 177 | |
| The Labyrinth: An Electronic Information Network for Medieval Studies | 191 | |
| Online Education: The Future | 203 | |
| Hypermedia and Higher Education | 215 | |
| Equal Access to Computer Networks for Students and Scholars with Disabilities | 233 | |
| Medieval Misfits: An Undergraduate Discussion List | 243 | |
| VICE in REST | 257 | |
| The Solidarity Network: Universities, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Labor Studies in Canada | 277 | |
| Creating a Virtual Academic Community: Scholarship and Community in Wide-Area Multiple-User Synchronous Discussions | 291 | |
| Dimensions of Electronic Journals | 315 | |
| Electronic Academic Journals: From Disciplines to "Seminars"? | 335 | |
| The Electronic Journal and Its Implications for the Electronic Library | 351 | |
| The Role of Academic Libraries in the Dissemination of Scholarly Information in the Electronic Environment | 369 | |
| The Body in the Virtual Library: Rethinking Scholarly Communication | 383 | |
| Equality in Access to Network Information by Scholars with Disabilities | 399 | |
| Building New Tools for the Twenty-First-Century University: Providing Access to Visual Information | 409 | |
| A Short Primer for Communicating on the Global Net | 423 | |
| List of Contributors | 449 | |
| Index | 457 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Daniel Walker
reviewed Computer networking and scholarly communication in the twenty-first-century university on July 18, 2020
Computer networking and scholarly communication in the twenty-first-century university
This was such a boring book. So much so that I would discourage anyone from picking ip up (or studying Computer Networking for that matter). First let me point out the characteristics that I liked most, so that I won't come across as a nuisance, and that prevented me from giving a lower rating
- At anyone's reach
- Very comprehensive prose, as far as the topics that the authors chose to cover are concerned (indeed, I felt much was left over)
Now comes my critique: this book feels aimed at a five-year old audience! Paragraphs feel like a watered-down, wordy mass of text -- this gives clarity, but is boring as hell to read! I expected (if not demanded from a Computer Science course) more formalism, technical sophistication than what I got from two authors afraid of overwhelming their audience. Computer networking basics are covered satisfactorily, but the watered-down, romanticized prose prevented the text from achieving a thicker conceptual density; a book style more appropriate for students with an interest in industry-related applications than on insight and true understanding. I once had a talk with a networking tutor at my university, and he told me part of his work dealt with Markov's chains and probabilistic modeling; I read many of the end-of-chapter interviews, and the interviewees often remarked a conceptually richer footing for computer networking that this book expressed. Why wasn't any of all this covered in this text?
Where did the cool stuff go? OK, I got a good grasp on the ISO/OSI stack -- up from HTTP, e-mail systems, P2P networks down to TCP congestion and flow control mechanisms, link-layer devices and LANs and basic network security notions (that was probably the part I liked most) but in the end I felt I was only acquiring passive knowledge with no reasoning involved. Is that a problem with this particular book? With computer networking? Worse yet, for computer science courses in general?
Additional flaws
- Ridiculously over-priced hard-cover copy (I borrowed one from the library)
- No solutions for end-of-chapter exercises (not even wireshark)
- Questionably ugly top-down approach. Makes one feel like applications deserve more attention than theoretical understanding
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