Planned obsolescence [electronic resource] : publishing, technology, and the future of the academy / Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967-
2011
Z286.S37 F58 2011eb
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Title
Planned obsolescence [electronic resource] : publishing, technology, and the future of the academy / Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
Author
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, 1967-
ISBN
9780814728963 (electronic bk.)
9780814727874
9780814727881
Publication Details
New York : New York University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 245 p.) : ill.
Call Number
Z286.S37 F58 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
070.50973
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. "-- $c Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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