Sociology
ESRC +3
SPAIS, University of Bristol
Start date: October 2022
Research topic: Markets and metadata
I’m interested in how social and technological arrangements are brought to bear on the production and dissemination of academic research. Drawing on insights from science and technology studies and economic sociology, my PhD looks at how platformization is affecting the long-established functions and infrastructures of the publishing field, how actors are responding by repositioning themselves in a digitalized market, and how this all makes a difference to the ways in which we collectively imagine, create and use academic texts.
Research supervisors: Sveta Milyaeva, John Downer
Email: paul/stevens@bristol.ac.uk