The Future of Scholarly Journal Publishing among Social Science and Humanities Associations: Report on a Study Funded by a Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

An online ride-hailing app is a must-have app on your mobile devices, because it's features have been extended to meet almost modern urban needs. What if we could adopt the same features and functionalities for the academic publishing ecosystem. We proudly introduce the conceptual of GO-PUB. GO-PUB is an online app that provides a spatial database of scholarly journal publishers and to connect it with potential authors. Potential authors could find the perfect journal near their locations, complete with supporting pieces of information about the journal publishing system. The concept of GO-PUB is open source and cross platforms, hosted in public repository to make sure everyone could share their knowledge and contribution to the project.

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Vectors into the Future of Mass and Interpersonal Communication Research: Big Data, Social Media, and Computational Social Science

Human Communication Research ◽

10.1111/hcre.12114 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 43 (4) ◽

pp. 545-558 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Joseph N. Cappella

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Big Data ◽

Social Science ◽

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Computational Social Science ◽

Communication Research ◽

The Future

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Exile and Social Science

Exile, Statelessness, and Migration ◽

10.23943/princeton/9780691167251.003.0008 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 145-163

Author(s):

Seyla Benhabib

Keyword(s):

Social Science ◽

Comparative Advantage ◽

Real World ◽

The State ◽

Competitive System ◽

Albert Hirschman ◽

The Family ◽

The Future ◽

Quality Of Products

This chapter focuses on how Albert Hirschman presented that the image of the economy as a fully competitive system where changes in the fortunes of individual firms are exclusively caused by basic shifts of comparative advantage is certainly an inaccurate representation of the real world. In associations such as the family, the state, and religious, civic, and professional institutions, loyalty dominates and often trumps exit in favor of voice. “Exit” means leaving behind a product, a service, a firm, or a country to seek others, whereas “voice” refers to the choice to seek influence and have a say in determining the future quality of products or institutions. The chapter shows how Hirschman knew about exit, the search for voice, and the conflicts of loyalties first-hand through his eventful life and travels.

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