Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, And The Future Of The Academy Project Muse Upcc Books

Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Introduction: Obsolescence......Page 10 1 Peer Review......Page 24 Traditional Peer Review and Its Defenses......Page 27 The History of Peer Review......Page 29 The Future of Peer Review......Page 32 Anonymity......Page 36 Credentialing......Page 39 The Reputation Economy......Page 41 Community-Based Filtering......Page 47 MediaCommons and Peer-to-Peer Review......Page 52 Credentialing, Revisited......Page 56 2 Authorship......Page 59 The Rise of the Author......Page 66 The Death of the Author......Page 69 From Product to Process......Page 75 From Individual to Collaborative......Page 81 From Originality to Remix......Page 85 From Intellectual Property to the Gift Economy......Page 89 From Text to . . . Something More......Page 92 3 Texts......Page 98 Documents, E-books, Pages......Page 102 Hypertext......Page 104 Database-Driven Scholarship......Page 109 Reading and the Communications Circuit......Page 113 CommentPress......Page 118 4 Preservation......Page 130 Standards......Page 138 Metadata......Page 146 Access......Page 153 Cost......Page 161 5 The University......Page 164 Publishing, Not for Profit......Page 166 New Collaborations......Page 175 Publishing and the University Mission......Page 180 The History of the University Press......Page 184 The Press as University Publisher......Page 187 Sustainability......Page 193 Conclusion......Page 197 Notes......Page 206 Bibliography......Page 222 A......Page 240 B......Page 241 C......Page 242 E......Page 243 G......Page 244 J......Page 245 M......Page 246 O......Page 247 P......Page 248 S......Page 250 T......Page 251 W......Page 252 Z......Page 253 About the Author......Page 254 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. -- 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. Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 213-230) And Index. **Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013** 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. Check out the author's website here. For more information on MediaCommons, click here. Listen to an interview with the author on The Critical Lede podcast here. Related Articles: "Do 'the Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities" - Chronicle of Higher Education "Academic Publishing and Zombies" - Inside Higher Ed 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 changeso especially greater utilization of internet publication technologies, including digital archives, social networking tools, and multimediaonecessary 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. Confronting a change-averse academy, she insists that before we can successfully change the systems through which we disseminate research, scholars must re-evaluate their ways of workingohow they research, write, and reviewowhile administrators must reconsider the purposes of publishing and the role it plays within the university. 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 all of 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 vibrant and relevant in the digital future. 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 "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."--Résumé de l'éditeur
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.

Cover 1 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction: Obsolescence 10 1 Peer Review 24 Traditional Peer Review and Its Defenses 27 The History of Peer Review 29 The Future of Peer Review 32 Anonymity 36 Credentialing 39 The Reputation Economy 41 Community-Based Filtering 47 MediaCommons and Peer-to-Peer Review 52 Credentialing, Revisited 56 2 Authorship 59 The Rise of the Author 66 The Death of the Author 69 From Product to Process 75 From Individual to Collaborative 81 From Originality to Remix 85 From Intellectual Property to the Gift Economy 89 From Text to . . . Something More 92 3 Texts 98 Documents, E-books, Pages 102 Hypertext 104 Database-Driven Scholarship 109 Reading and the Communications Circuit 113 CommentPress 118 4 Preservation 130 Standards 138 Metadata 146 Access 153 Cost 161 5 The University 164 Publishing, Not for Profit 166 New Collaborations 175 Publishing and the University Mission 180 The History of the University Press 184 The Press as University Publisher 187 Sustainability 193 Conclusion 197 Notes 206 Bibliography 222 Index 240 A 240 B 241 C 242 D 243 E 243 F 244 G 244 H 245 I 245 J 245 K 246 L 246 M 246 N 247 O 247 P 248 R 250 S 250 T 251 U 252 V 252 W 252 X 253 Y 253 Z 253 About the Author 254