| Περίληψη: | In this chapter we will examine transformations in the landscape of knowledge in the post-book era, using as an ethnographic case our own experience writing this networked textbook on digital culture. Technocultural transformations have opened up important new fields of research in relation to the production and politics of knowledge, while simultaneously demanding of social scientists that they position themselves criticially in these new technoscapes of knowledge. <br/><br/>
In the first section, we will briefly discuss the practices, discourses and issues that have emerged in the context of digital humanities. We will examine how with the transition from the print to the digital paradigm and the concomitant rethinking of bibliocentrism that has ensued, new models of research, teaching and scholarly communication have developed. We make special reference to the current place and future prospects of anthropology in this interdisciplinary field.<br/><br/>
We will then continue with a brief discussion of the materiality of digital information (that problematically is considered by many to be "immaterial"). The gendered, racial and class relations of power and exploitation, as well as creative and appropriating practices of users, which have developed in relation to the production and circulation of digital information form yet another potential topic of anthropological analysis. <br/><br/>
Finally, with reference to the challenges in producing a networked, digital textbook, as well as those regarding use of terminology in a Greek-language textbook about digital culture, we will address some current and critical issues relating to the broader field of knowledge production as it is constituted within global and local networks.
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