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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Scholarly electronic publishing--United States.

Scholarly electronic publishing.

Scholarly publishing--United States.

Scholarly publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2011.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013Academic 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 Media Commons, 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. Check out the author's website here. For more information on Media Commons, click here. Listen to an interview with the author on The Critical Lede podcast here. Related Articles: "Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities" - Chronicle of Higher Education "Academic Publishing and Zombies" - Inside Higher Ed

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Obsolescence

1. Peer Review

2. Authorship

3. Texts

4. Preservation

5. The University

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780814728963

0814728960

OCLC:

759000874