書評：邱炯友著《學術傳播與期刊出版》

Book Review: Jeong-yeou Chiu's Scholarly Communication and Journal Publishing

閱讀邱炯友著《學術傳播與期刊出版》（以下簡稱《學》），第一件事恐怕是不能被書名誤導，因為本書一共八章，範圍除涵蓋學術傳播與學術出版（第一章）、期刊出版（第二至四、七章），尚且包括論文引文（第五、六章）及大學出版社（第八章）；至少第五、六、八三章讓人覺得該書的書名未免辜負了內容，因為這三章所討論的環節雖相關而事實上已遠超過期刊出版—這是我的解讀（或誤讀）。依作者的說明（頁i），則本書的結構可能必須視為圖書資訊學（第一章）、學術期刊（第二至四章）和學術傳播下的出版議題（第五至八章）等單元。

We live in a technology-embedded society. That is, the study of information society, if there is one, calls for a closer look at the information technology. But what is the better way to do this? Concerning scholarly communication, which is one field of information society studies, to think ecologically helps us, like it does in other places, reach a more comprehensive understanding of the role of information technology in the process of it. As we already know, a communicating practice contains, at least, four elements, i.e. sender, content, mode, and receiver. In order to show the intervention and consequence of technology in this practice, the mode of communication is highlighted and thereby I examine the issues raised by the book in review. Foregrounding ecological thinking permanently and drawing on the concept of modernity, I re-situate these issues carefully in the due context and then identify the limit of technological utopian perspective which has been traditionally ignored or taken for granted by researchers in the study of information and technology. It is a book review as well as an exploration of sociological interpretation of scholarly communication. Moreover, it is aiming towards an interdisciplinary study on the subject of library and information science.