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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kathleen Fitzpatrick |
| ISBN: | 9780814727874 0814727875 9780814727881 0814727883 |
| OCLC Number: | 710019002 |
| Description: | viii, 245 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | Kathleen Fitzpatrick. |
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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 Read more...
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