Multimodal Scholarship
I’m finishing up the revisions on chapter 2 today, and have been thinking about the section “from text to… something more.” I’ve expanded my thinking about multimodal scholarship a bit, including the addition of these paragraphs, just after Moulthrop’s “Writing is still writing, even with funkier friends” quotation: Resistance to allowing scholarly production to take [...]
Further Revisions
I’m vastly behind schedule, I’m afraid, but am at last pressing forward with revisions on this text for the print edition. One of the things that’s been most useful to me in working back through the early parts of the text has been the comments from readers who suggest that I’ve grazed too lightly across [...]
Zombies!
I’m beginning the process of revising the manuscript today, and have (appropriately, I guess) begun with the beginning. It’s occurred to me that I might post bits and pieces of revisions-in-progress here, as a way of fostering more discussion where appropriate. One of the most-commented paragraphs in the project is the zombie paragraph, which several [...]
External Reviews
As I’ve noted on the External Reviews page contained within the table of contents, NYU Press sent Planned Obsolescence out for traditional peer review alongside this process. At the request of Eric Zinner, the press’s Assistant Director and Editor-in-Chief, one of my reviewers, Lisa Spiro, has allowed us to post her reviews — both the [...]
Technical Stuff Happening
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Community Blog!
So my last post was driven by the fact that I’d woken up in the middle of the night thinking, gee, where will readers of Planned Obsolescence do the kind of summary, synthetic commenting that attempts to make connections across the book? Not knowing how else to manage it, I figured I’d start an open [...]
Overall Comments
It occurs to me this morning that one of the things that CommentPress doesn’t provide for in its fine-grained commenting structure is a place for wide-ranging discussion of the broader ideas, or the overall progression of those ideas, in the manuscript as a whole. That is to say, while I do still disagree with Ian [...]
Launching Planned Obsolescence
The process of writing and publishing a book is ordinarily subject to odd lulls, and the lulls feel particularly odd once the book is finished but before it comes out. The manuscript gets sent to the press, and everything goes quiet, and then all of a sudden back come reviewers’ reports or copy-edited text or [...]
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19 March 2012 at 10.08 am
It’s interesting how the notion of “Facebook for scholars” is evolving…partic as Facebook reveals that its business, as opposed to its function, is to provide highly personalized information to advertisers.My own growing awareness of this has caused a shift in my thinking about what a Facebook for scholars could do: it’s not about the social network, but rather about the ability to act as a highly personalized filter agent for internet content.As w/ FB ads, FB4S, as we might call it, could be built from a scholars ‘like’ button to build up, over time, content that i’m finding useful in my research. The underlying FB4S engine can do exactly what FB is now doing for advertisers, but consumption is focused on links to ideas I might ‘like’, not products.
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12 March 2012 at 4.08 am
[...] biblioteche a causa dell’altissimo prezzo degli abbonamenti alle riviste. Applicato alle University Press, questo modello sarebbe suicida, perché farebbe seccare un ramo vitale dell’istituzione per [...]
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11 March 2012 at 3.53 pm
[...] mondo della stampa, quando un editore falliva, i suoi libri gli sopravvivevano. Ma quando fallisce un progetto di pubblicazione digitale, tutto il suo patrimonio rischia di sparire. E per quanto, liberando i testi per l’accesso aperto, si possa sperare da trar guadagno dai [...]
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11 March 2012 at 3.51 pm
[...] comunicazione del sapere si è allontanata dal sapere, per farsi intrapresa editoriale, perché si è preso a trattarla come un marchio d’eccellenza, da accertarsi [...]
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11 March 2012 at 3.51 pm
[...] questa soluzione funzioni, le istituzioni devono cambiare. Le biblioteche, che hanno sempre avuto il compito di raccogliere testi e offrire servizi, possono [...]
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11 March 2012 at 3.51 pm
[...] riviste delle multinazionali dell’editoria scientifica adottano un modello commerciale vantaggioso soltanto per loro, fondato sull’oligopolio imposto dal marketing dell’ISI (ora: Thomson Reuters Web of [...]
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11 March 2012 at 3.50 pm
[...] Le riforme di K. Fitzpatrick – la revisione da pari a pari, la trasfigurazione comunitaria dell’autore, l’interpretazione del testo come luogo di discussione piuttosto che come prodotto, la socialità della sua disseminazione e conservazione – si fondano sulla convinzione che la pubblicazione accademica tradizionale sia divenuta economicamente insostenibile. [...]
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28 February 2012 at 10.03 am
[...] her introduction, Fitzpatrick writes, “we too often fall into a conventional association of obsolescence with the [...]
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28 February 2012 at 10.02 am
[...] as a database rather than transactionally to academic and research libraries.” In her “new institutional structures” section, Fitzpatrick notes a small trend of university departments taking on greater levels of [...]
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22 February 2012 at 4.58 pm
[...] faccia qualcun altro, o che qualcun altro approfitterà del loro lavoro senza dare nulla in cambio, non la farà nessuno. LOCKSS organizza in forma digitale il sistema della libera moltiplicazione delle copie che ci ha [...]
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