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

Name: Planned Obsolescence Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
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ISBN: 9780814727874

ISBN-10: 0814727875

ISBN-13: 9780814727874

Edition: 2011

Authors: Kathleen Fitzpatrick

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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 Obsolescenceis 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

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.