Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

We’re happy today to unveil both MediaCommons Press and Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. This book-in-progress focuses on the social and institutional changes that will be required within colleges and universities in the U.S. in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable reality.

The manuscript is here published in full, in an commentable format designed to promote a new open mode of peer review. We very much want your feedback, both on the process and on the manuscript itself. Please join the conversation, and spread the word.

CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts

Originally published as a draft in July 2007, and then revised and republished on MediaCommons in October 2007 (and simultaneously published in the Journal of Electronic Publishing), “CommentPress: New (Social) Structures for New (Networked) Texts” explores the ways that new networked publishing structures might help us imagine new ways of publishing — and doing — scholarship.

MediaCommons: Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet

Originally published in March 2007, “MediaCommons: Scholarly Publishing in the Age of the Internet” laid the groundwork for the MediaCommons project.