[-empyre-] Engineering the University- Week Two

[Prutzer, Edward S]

Well put. I wanted to pose this issue of newness at the start to center what our group is discussing within a history that must be acknowledged in addressing our questions. There is also, of course, a great deal of literature within media studies on the construction of the new that informed the nature of the question – the work of Kelli Fuery and Lisa Gitelman specifically come to mind. The term new media, problematic in its sense of temporality amidst its ever-growing application, can imply innovation as much as it can the imposing or even the dangerous. Given this, the terming of different media as new can indeed be tied to crisis.


As you note, too, the invocation of crisis, particularly in these cases of the expansion of media, often leads to further pressure. This insight begs the question of how young scholars should navigate these pressures while learning about the systematic nature of the university’s knowledge flows on the fly. For young scholars, there is often added pressure for one’s scholarly output having real world application (especially given an information ecology wherein knowledge production takes place within and outside universities) or being oriented toward social justice. 

Despite this, as we have discussed in out group before, this kind of work, be it working with nonprofit projects, running a socially conscious blog or website, or even just publishing in online journals, is not always seen as legitimate scholarly work within institutions of higher education even as it strives to make scholarly work more accessible. With that said, what lessons do you see within your historical perspective for emerging scholars regarding the knowledge flows that shape scholarly work in the university? How should emerging scholars attend to the pressures surrounding their scholarly output within our contemporary knowledge ecology? 


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