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Planned Obsolescence

Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
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"Open Access"; "License restrictions may limit access."; "This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0"
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Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, authorAuthor info »
Format:
Book
Language:
In English.
Published:
New York, NY New York University Press, 2011
Copyright date:
2011
Biographical/ Historical note:
Fitzpatrick Kathleen : Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College and founding editor of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons. She is the author of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television and has blogged at Planned Obsolescence since 2002.
Summary:
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishing Academic institutions are facing a crisis in scholarly publishing at multiple levels: presses are stressed as never before, library budgets are squeezed, faculty are having difficulty publishing their work, and promotion and tenure committees are facing a range of new ways of working without a clear sense of how to understand and evaluate them. Planned Obsolescence is both a provocation to think more broadly about the academy's future and an argument for re-conceiving that future in more communally-oriented ways. Facing these issues head-on, Kathleen Fitzpatrick focuses on the technological changes -- especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimedia -- necessary to allow academic publishing to thrive into the future. But she goes further, insisting that the key issues that must be addressed are social and institutional in origin. Springing from original research as well as Fitzpatrick's own hands-on experiments in new modes of scholarly communication through MediaCommons, the digital scholarly network she co-founded, Planned Obsolescence explores these aspects of scholarly work, as well as issues surrounding the preservation of digital scholarship and the place of publishing within the structure of the contemporary university. Written in an approachable style designed to bring administrators and scholars into a conversation, Planned Obsolescence explores both symptom and cure to ensure that scholarly communication will remain relevant in the digital future. Related Articles: "Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities" -- Chronicle of Higher Education "Academic Publishing and Zombies" -- Inside Higher Ed
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1 online resource.
ISBN:
9780814728963 (online)
9780814728970 (online)
Table of contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Obsolescence
  • 1. Peer Review
  • 2. Authorship
  • 3. Texts
  • 4. Preservation
  • 5. The University
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author
Other title:
Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
In:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Literature & Language Ebooks ProQuest Info & Learning Co 2597302
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books OAPEN 5937
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR 2418090
Project Muse Open Access ebooks Project MUSE 2797172
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN 4476

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