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/
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Mickey who?
Roonie!
Judy who?
Garland!
They'd throw a party!
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