The importance of being digital. Exploring digital scholarship and digital methods
the importance of being digital – i.e. establishing a digital identity, and engaging in research dissemination and in wide, open scientific conversations on the web – has become nowadays a sort of mantra for scholars of all disciplines and at different stages of their career.
The proposal focuses on the transformation that “being digital” entails for research practices and scholarship in general. In the first place, the project aims at understanding how digital technologies are changing the academic profession. In order to do so, we will investigate both the actual transformation of research practices and the researchers' perceptions associated with the use of digital media in their work. In the second place, the project aims at exploring the contribution of digital methods in the analysis of scale and trajectory of such changes.