Planned obsolescence : publishing, technology, and the future of the academy / Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scholarly publishing--United States.

Scholarly publishing.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

United States.

Scholarly electronic publishing--United States.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2011]

Summary:

"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 reconceiving 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. "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Peer Review 15

Traditional Peer Review and Its Defenses 18

The History of Peer Review 20

The Future of Peer Review 23

Anonymity 27

Credentialing 30

The Reputation Economy 32

Community-Based Filtering 38

MediaCommons and Peer-to-Peer Review 43

Credentialing, Revisited 47

2 Authorship 50

The Rise of the Author 57

The Death of the Author 60

From Product to Process 66

From Individual to Collaborative 72

From Originality to Remix 76

From Intellectual Property to the Gift Economy 80

From Text to ... Something More 83

3 Texts 89

Documents, E-books, Pages 93

Hypertext 95

Database-Driven Scholarship 100

Reading and the Communications Circuit 104

CommentPress 109

4 Preservation 121

Standards 129

Metadata 137

Access 144

Cost 152

5 The University 155

Publishing, Not for Profit 157

New Collaborations 166

Publishing and the University Mission 171

The History of the University Press 175

The Press as University Publisher 178

Sustainability 184.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814727874

0814727875

9780814727881

0814727883

9780814728963

0814728960

OCLC:

710019002

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