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| | Discourse and Discipline in the Digital Domain: |
 | | And, those who are now teaching and learning with such technologies on campuses around the world must rededicate themselves to shielding what is still worth saving in traditional universities from mindless economic rationalization by reinventing much of their universities as virtual research, learning, and service communities. |
 | | Learned discourse already is adapting to the on-line salon of e-mail exchanges, chat rooms, use groups, and list serves in ways that are accelerating the diffusion of research results, broadening access to scholarly debate, redefining the agendas of research programs, and eroding the closed authority of disciplinary experts. |
 | | On the contrary, research and publication in the digital domain increasingly represent moves toward new types of discourse, innovative changes in the scholarly document, and shapeshifting alterations in many traditional disciplines. |
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