The 'Zoomification' of Collaboration: How Timely Technology Has Affected Academic Research

Autor/inn/en	Bozeman, Barry; Gaughan, Monica
Titel	The 'Zoomification' of Collaboration: How Timely Technology Has Affected Academic Research
Quelle	In: Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 61 (2023) 4, S.467-493 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bozeman, Barry)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0026-4695
DOI	10.1007/s11024-023-09500-4
Schlagwörter	Videoconferencing; Cooperative Learning; Technology Uses in Education; Research; COVID-19; Pandemics; College Faculty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kooperatives Lernen; Technology enhanced learning; Technology aided learning; Technologieunterstütztes Lernen; Forschung; Fakultät
Abstract	We use the term "Zoomification" to refer to the primary mode of research collaboration used by academic researchers during much of the COVID-19 pandemic. While neither video-enabled technology or remote collaboration is new, the technology developments and needs that occurred during the pandemic proved exceptional, indeed a step-change in approaches to research collaboration. This study, based on in-depth interviews with 65 tenured and tenure track professors in dozens of United States universities in a wide variety of STEM disciplines, focuses on collegial effects of Zoomification on research collaboration, including research with graduate students. We find diverse impacts according to career status, with younger faculty and doctoral students faring least well with an absence of face-to-face communication. As expected, impacts vary according to the nature of work, including the need to work in the field, reliance on laboratory equipment, laboratory animals, samples and high cost, centralized equipment. The effects of remote collaboration are to some extent predictable but there are results that point toward realignment in some of the ways research collaboration is established and maintained. We conclude with speculations about the long-range implications of Zoomification of research collaboration. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01