Academic Flying and the Means of Communication

Kristian Bjørkdahl, "Academic Flying and the Means of Communication"
English | ISBN: 9811649103 | 2022 | 386 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the