Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation

Perhaps a greater challenge than keeping the walls porous between disciplines is to ensure that the very specialized work done within fields retains its integrity when involved in collaborative efforts. Keeping this in mind, Academy and the Internet is a commendable collection that should be read as a critique, used as a reference, and viewed as coming as close to the ‘unreachable’ conceptual photograph as is possible. Borrowing from Rosenzweig’s historical opinion that the internet ‘seems to be emerging as a “meta-medium”’ (p. 26), so too does the nature of internet studies, a thought reinforced by all contributing fields.