Internet, social sciences and humanities

• Authors: František Stellner , Marek Vokoun
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with the state of the social sciences after the boom of internet services in the Czech Republic in the 1990s. The results of our survey, based on 512 responses from the economics and history departments of major Czech public universities, show that internet services are considered a quality factor for academic output; however, the issues of plagiarism, a lack of resource criticism, inadequacy of impact factor-based evaluations, poor academic training for the new generation of social scientists, the failure of state academic policy, and the generation gap make further development in the Czech social sciences rather problematic. As a result we recommend creating a better communication link between policy makers and scholars, reforming the current state policy which encourages lower quality academic output, and improving academic training, which requires a more individual approach, and also placing higher demands on social scientists.

Keywords

EN

internet; social sciences; academic policy; impact factor; economics; history; generation; gap

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 492-510

Dates

published

2014-10-01

online

2014-10-02

Contributors

author

František Stellner

• The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice

author

Marek Vokoun

• The Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-014-0244-7