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PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
Subtitle:
Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Book Category:
Social Science > Media Studies
Author:
Fitzpatrick, Kathleen
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
0814727883
ISBN 13:
9780814727881
Price:
USD 23.00
Publication Year:
2011

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NYU Press.

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Book Description

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.

 

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