This edited volume marks the introduction of our series: Studies in Knowledge Production and Participation. Its overarching goal is to contribute to current debates about the roles of globalisation, multilingualism and new technologies in relation to knowledge production. Existing scholarship on knowledge production has mainly concentrated on academic knowledge traditionally disseminated through journals and books, with concerns being raised about unequal access to the global publishing marketplace in terms of both the production and the use of knowledge. Such scholarship has predominantly been conducted and written about by researchers located in well-resourced, often Anglophone contexts. The series has three key aims:

• (1) To broaden the range of research on knowledge production and access by covering topics such as the effects of the policies and practices of evaluation and the provision of resources; responses and resistance to pressures for the production of certain types of knowledge; various modes and technologies of knowledge production and participation; and different types of vernacular knowledge-making practices.

• (2) To include work by scholars located in parts of the world outside of the Anglo-American 'centre', whether their research focuses on their local context or elsewhere. Such contributions might explore the ways in which local languages are used (or displaced by English) in different types of knowledge construction.

• (3) To include work from a range of academic fields, including but not limited to applied linguistics, education, writing/literacies (including digital and multimodal), media studies and policy. Researchers in these fields use a variety of methodologies, from qualitative and ethnographic methods to systemic functional and text linguistics to corpus linguistics, and survey research.