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: 9780814727881

ISBN-10: 0814727883

ISBN-13: 9780814727881

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 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…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
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.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Obsolescence



Peer Review


Traditional Peer Review and Its Defenses


The History of Peer Review


The Future of Peer Review


Anonymity


Credentialing


The Reputation Economy


Community-Based Filtering


MediaCommons and Peer-to-Peer Review


Credentialing, Revisited



Authorship


The Rise of the Author


The Death of the Author


From Product to Process


From Individual to Collaborative


From Originality to Remix


From Intellectual Property to the Gift Economy


From Text to ... Something More



Texts


Documents, E-books, Pages


Hypertext


Database-Driven Scholarship


Reading and the Communications Circuit


CommentPress



Preservation


Standards


Metadata


Access


Cost



The University


Publishing, Not for Profit


New Collaborations


Publishing and the University Mission


The History of the University Press


The Press as University Publisher


Sustainability


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author