Research Outside The Academy Professional Knowledge-Making in the Digital Age /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Börjesson, Lisa (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Huvila, Isto (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Sociology-Research.; Communication.; Sociology.; Educational technology.; Education and state.; Research Methodology.; Communication Studies.; Knowledge - Discourse.; Technology and Digital Education.; Education Policy.

This book analyses the practical, information-related dimensions of professional knowledge making and communication in extra-academic organisations. It treats the sites where research takes place and where knowledge is created outside academia in the light, among other things, of new digital resourc...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction
• Chapter 2 Environmental Research and Knowledge Production within Governmental Organizations
• Chapter 3 Making and Publishing Knowledge in Research Institutes
• Chapter 4 Making Knowledge Work: the Function of Public Knowledge Organisations in the Netherlands
• Chapter 5 Librarians Conducting Library Research: What is Happening outside the Academy
• Chapter 6 Contract Archaeology
• Chapter 7 Knowledge-Making in Business Organizations
• Chapter 8 Grey Literature and Professional Knowledge Making
• Chapter 9 How Knowing Changes
• Chapter 10 Epilogue.