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Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013 A bold approach to re-envisioning the future of academic publishing 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 re-conceiving 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. Related Articles: "Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities"—Chronicle of Higher Education "Academic Publishing and Zombies"—Inside Higher Ed

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction: Obsolescence 1 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 2 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 3 Texts Documents, E-books, Pages Hypertext Database-Driven Scholarship Reading and the Communications Circuit CommentPress 4 Preservation Standards Metadata Access Cost 5 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

About the Author :
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.

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Planned Obsolescence is a wonderfully clear and honest assessment of the present state of academic publishing and possible future directions. The digital age offers us a chance to exit the ivory tower and engage in more meaningful collaborations with peers and a more inclusive dialogue with readers. Fitzpatrick's study is a must-read, not just for all of those directly involved - academics, publishers, university administrators, librarians - but also for anybody interested in the future of the humanities." Alessandra Tosi, Times Higher Education "Kathleen Fitzpatrick is one of our most interesting, provocative, knowledgeable, and sane commentators on the future of rewriting, writing, publishing and the academy. Planned Obsolescence is a field guide to the future ways we do our research, communicate, teach, and learn together." Cathy Davidson, Duke University "Kathleen Fitzpatrick is a pioneer of both the theory and practice of peer-to-peer scholarly publishing. This book is the best map yet to the difficult terrain where economies, technologies and cultures of academic communication meet. If there are to be paths to sustainable practices for intelligent life in academia, then we should all follow Fitzpatrick's lead." McKenzie Wark, author of A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory "Fitzpatrick is well qualified to discuss alternate forms of publishing and unexpected futures for the academy...Chapters titled 'Peer Review,' 'Authorship,' 'Texts,' 'Preservation,' and 'The University' methodically dismantle arguments for the status quo, with sections debating accepted beliefs and practices such as the anonymous basis of peer review; recognizable, individual authorship; for-profit university presses; and the rejection of open access as a tenable scholarly publishing model." - Henrietta Thornton-Verma, Library Journal "[A] desire for pre-eminence, authority and disciplinary power - is what blogs and the digital humanities stand against.The point is made concisely by Kathleen Fitzpatrick in her new book, Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy." Stanely Fish, blogger for The New York Times "Fitzpatrick's Planned Obsolescence - its title a sardonic speculation on the future of the printed book - considers how academic publishing might best resolve this challenging dilemma. As co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommmons, Fitzpatrick - who lectures in Media Studies at Pomona College in California - is well placed to observe the development of digital culture in academia." The Los Angeles Review of Books , June 2012


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  • ISBN-13: 9780814727881
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0814727883
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 422 gr


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