FYI
-John



HASTAC--the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced 
Collaboratory--announces the opening of our most recent HASTAC 
Scholars Discussion Forum on the topic of "Academic Publishing in the 
Digital Age 
<http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/11-02-08Academic-Publishing-in-the-Digital-Age>." 
The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program recognizes graduate and 
undergraduate students who are engaged in innovative work across the 
areas of technology, the arts, the humanities, and the social 
sciences.  The HASTAC Scholars facilitate regular discussion forums 
on topics at the forefront of the digital humanities that are open to 
public at large at www.hastac.com.  The current forum is being hosted 
by graduate student Scholars Julie Levin Russo from Brown University 
and Chris Hanson from the University of Southern California.  Please 
read below for a description of the forum, and please come share your 
own thoughts, questions and concerns about this topic at 
www.hastac.org 
<http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/11-02-08Academic-Publishing-in-the-Digital-Age>. 



  Academic Publishing in the Digital Age

*Forum open now at 
http://www.hastac.org/scholars/forum/11-02-08Academic-Publishing-in-the-Digital-Age 
*

<http://www.vectorsjournal.org/>

Following from October's discussion of the importance of Fair Use, 
this forum will offer an opportunity to extend the dialogue about new 
challenges and opportunities in academic publishing today. As 
established print journals tend toward expensive and restricted 
subscriptions in response to current technological and financial 
conditions, a counter-movement is growing in support of online access 
to scholarship as a public good, led by open electronic journals and 
databases. Are traditional journals a relic of a pre-internet era, or 
does their publication model still have value in academia? How can 
either system be economically viable? Given that strict liability 
copyright standards are a hurdle for print journals, do electronic 
journals provide a necessary haven for the citation and 
transformation of proprietary artifacts and work? In a context where 
everyone can have a blog or home page, what do students and scholars 
need to know about the benefits and risks of self-publishing? And 
perhaps most importantly, what new possibilities for intellectual and 
creative work are capacitated by the web as a platform?

<http://journal.transformativeworks.org/> The goal of this forum is 
to explore the shifting definition of academic publishing in the 
digital age, as well as to consider the intellectual, creative and 
technical challenges which digital platforms pose for scholarly 
publication.  We welcome contributions from those who have published 
electronically as well as those who have not, those who work with 
electronic journals and those who work with print journals or 
university presses, those who have no knowledge of publishing at all 
but have questions and observations; our goal is to facilitate a 
venue in which we may all ask and answer questions about the present 
and future of digital scholarship.  The conversation will be 
co-hosted by HASTAC Scholars Chris Hanson of USC, who has worked for 
the online journal /Vectors/, and Julie Levin Russo of Brown, who 
works for the online journal /Transformative Works and Cultures/. 
They will be joined by other members of these publications' editorial 
and creative teams, including Tara McPherson, Steve Anderson and Erik 
Loyer. /Vectors <http://www.vectorsjournal.org/> /is an international 
electronic journal that brings together visionary scholars with 
cutting-edge designers and technologists to propose a thorough 
rethinking of the dynamic relationship of form to content in academic 
research, publishing works realized in multimedia that expand the 
rigid text-based paradigms of traditional scholarship. 
/Transformative Works and Cultures/ 
<http://journal.transformativeworks.org/>is an Open Access 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access> international electronic 
journal on popular media and fan communities published by the 
Organization for Transformative Works, and invites authors to embrace 
the technical possibilities of the web and test the limits of 
academic writing. Both publications are copyrighted under Creative 
Commons licenses.

/*Chris Hanson* is a Ph.D. candidate in Critical Studies at the 
University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. His 
dissertation focuses on replay and repetition in interactive media, 
television and avant-garde/experimental film and is tentatively 
entitled "One More Time: Instances, Applications and Implications of 
the Replay." At USC, he has worked on research projects at the 
Institute for Multimedia Literacy and in serious game design for the 
EA Game Innovation Lab and the Institute for Creative Technologies./

/*Julie Levin Russo <http://j-l-r.org/>* <http://j-l-r.org/>is a 
Ph.D. candidate in Modern Culture and Media at Brown 
Universitycompleting a dissertation entitled "Indiscrete Media: 
Television/Internet Convergence and Economies of Online Lesbian Fan 
Communities." In addition to various publications, presentations and 
the aforementioned editorial work, her recent projects have included 
co-editing a special //Battlestar Galactica// issue of the online 
journal //FlowTV// and guest blogging in Henry Jenkins's "Gender and 
Fan Culture" series. Look for her monthly videoblogs on topics of 
interest to the HASTAC community./
-- 
John J. Taormina
Director, Visual Resources Center
Dept. of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Duke University
Box 90764
112 East Duke Building
Durham  NC 27708-0764

Ph: 919-684-2501
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http://www.duke.edu/web/art/

What would Mickey and Judy do?

Mickey who?
Roonie!

Judy who?
Garland!

They'd throw a party!

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