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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

 

This email is being sent to all members of the Baruch College faculty.

 

 This free event, open to all members of the Baruch community, is sponsored by the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute.

 

Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy

Thursday, March 29, 6:00 pm

Newman Vertical Campus, Room 14-270

  

What if the academic monograph is a dying form? If scholarly communication is to have a future, it’s clear that it lies online, and yet the most significant obstacles to such a transformation are not technological, but instead social and institutional. How must the academy and scholars change their ways of thinking in order for digital scholarly publishing to become a viable alternative to the university press book? This talk will explore some of those changes and their implications for our lives as scholars and our work within universities.

 

Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies (on leave), Pomona College. She is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, published in 2011 by NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online, and of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press. She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons, and has published articles and notes in journals including the Journal of Electronic Publishing, PMLA, Contemporary Literature, and Cinema Journal.

 

RSVP to Communication.Institute@baruch.cuny.edu or 646 312-2065.

 

Mikhail Gershovich, Ph.D.

Director, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute

Coordinator, Writing Across the Curriculum Program