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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dear all, in the spirit of sharing, please find attached the manuscript I finally submitted to
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Urban Geography</a>, as part of a special issue "</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><i>Crisis-driven Digitalization and its Afterlives in Urban Governance”</i>, edited by
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ola Söderström (University of Neuchâtel), Sophie Oldfield (Cornell) and Petter Törnberg (University of Amsterdam). (</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;">Note:
we should invite Petter to our kick-off). </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">This came out of a workshop of the same title, hosted at the
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">University of Neuchâtel and
</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It is everything but a finalised (conceptual) piece, and it needs improvement, but it is out ready for being reviewed. </span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Some considerations (for collective learning, random nightly thoughts):</div>
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<div dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-size: 12pt;">Publishing in special issues is great, for at least three reasons. It forces you to respect their timeline, so you don’t keep postponing finalising that damned article (me, my life). It is evaluated
(i.e., peer reviewed) by reviewers selected by the guest editors; while they are not necessarily friendlier, they tend to be faster! Finally, the special issue is published "as a whole” and advertised in many venues (social media, colleagues, professional
mailing lists), contributing to the circulation of the article. If you are an emerging scholar, it increases massively your visibility (usually, editors tend to include one or more “big names” in special issues, else the journal wouldn’t even consider publication). </div>
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<div dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-size: 12pt;">Why do I (stefi) publish seemingly erratically in journals outside my field? Assuming I belong to “one” field (not sure what that would even be!), I like to maximise difference, and there are only
a few journals where I have returned (Big Data & Society, Internet Policy Review…). While not everyone might agree with this approach, I have always done cross-disciplinary research, and I find it mostly productive to have the chance to delve into literatures
that are potentially illuminating but not necessarily my natural whereabouts. (And in fact I got invitations to keynote as well as job offers from different disciplinary realms, so it pays off). To be discussed wen your turn comes. For the PhD-by-article,
I would try to be somewhat cohesive, though. </div>
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<div dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-size: 12pt;">We could consider a special issue edited collectively, soon-ish. Could even be an output of the kick-off event, although it is a bit premature. But it is good to start thinking what that could look
like, for the near future. Editorial experience is important in someone’s CV (although it is a nightmare of a task). </div>
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<div dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="font-size: 12pt;">Final note on "when do I send an article out for review”? When it is a good-enough viable product. Perfection is not of this world! Believe me, letting go is one of the toughest skills to master for
a PhD student (and beyond). It is almost only because I am over-flowing with work that I now let things go. </div>
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Ciao! stefi</div>
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