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Reviewing in the Age of Web 2.0: What Does Web Culture Have to Offer to Scholarly Communication?

Reviewing in the Age of Web 2.0: What Does Web Culture Have to Offer to Scholarly Communication?
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Author(s): Lilian Landes (Bavarian State Library, Germany)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 16
Source title: Social Software and the Evolution of User Expertise: Future Trends in Knowledge Creation and Dissemination
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Tatjana Takševa (Saint Mary's University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-2178-7.ch009

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Abstract

With digitalization increasing, scholars’ reading habits and communication methods are also changing, thus affecting the field of traditional reviewing in the humanities. The expert formulating a comprehensive review of a recently published work, will, in the medium term, see a scholarly community working together. In the age of Web 2.0, the disadvantages of a traditional book review, which usually does not allow for a reply or an open discussion, become apparent. This chapter describes (the preconditions for) these changes, as well as other issues in the current field of reviewing, that will eventually not only increase the speed of reviewing new publications in general, but will also, in compliance with the nature of this field, make it more focused on process and detail, more interdisciplinary, more flexible, and more international, thus adapting the model of “live” reviewing procedures as already established in the commercial book market.

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