[DATAGOV Core] Article submitted to Urban Geography

[Stefania Milan]

Dear all, in the spirit of sharing, please find attached the manuscript I finally submitted to Urban Geography<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rurb20>, as part of a special issue "Crisis-driven Digitalization and its Afterlives in Urban Governance”, edited by Ola Söderström (University of Neuchâtel), Sophie Oldfield (Cornell) and Petter Törnberg (University of Amsterdam). (Note: we should invite Petter to our kick-off). This came out of a workshop of the same title, hosted at the University of Neuchâtel and 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.

Some considerations (for collective learning, random nightly thoughts):

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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).
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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.
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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).
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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.

Ciao! stefi
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