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- 1. Katherine Skinner Executive Director, Educopia Institute University of North Texas December 11, 2009
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- Institutions evolve in RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP with social structures and historical circumstances Networks of people (Becker) New fields/genres (women’s music) Overlap in institutional/aesthetic (country music and authenticity) Fringes: Leblebici and broadcast music. How create profitable business structure when anyone with a radio can listen? (also the jukebox) Consumers: think of the people meter and its importance in broadcast TV. Or Kerr—early film industry struggled to break out of novelty—employing cartels and patent pools as they fought for shares of the budding industry. FANS found the key, though, as the star took on trademark value to audiences. Film industry capitalized on this; consumers had huge impact on organizational structure This gives us an interdisciplinary framework for approaching questions about the interactions of industry, cultural productions, and historical moments of heightened social and political change
- Social change = intricate patterns of activity/influences/orientations Although various publishing models have been tested, both by commercial entities and by the scholarly community, no particular model has emerged as an institutionalized forum for scholarly publishing to date. Sociological studies have demonstrated that industries, including scholarly publishing, do not organize in permanent manners, but adopt different strategies in response to cultural contexts, technological advances, market circumstances, and policy changes. In times of technological advances (e.g., the printing press and the broadcast medium), innovators at the fringes of the field often have the capacity to redefine the operations of that field. In a similar way, new digital environments for the humanities and social sciences are transforming the intellectual landscape. The ensuing hum of activities in digital library initiatives, digital history centers, and various individual ventures into internet publishing leaves open such questions as: what does digital scholarship look like? How is it peer reviewed? Who publishes it? Will it be validated by the scholarly community? And who has access to it, and under what circumstances?
- Impact is on the field as a whole. Few works are produced these days that don’t rely on the computer for research, writing, publication (even if it’s then printed off), and management (library catalogs/google/etc) Today, we’re going to be a bit narrower in definition, but arguably, all scholarship fits into the transforming field. It is scholarship , the “digital” modifier is beginning to lose meaning.
- Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences Examples: slavevoyages.org; zotero, TAPORtools, “Difference Slavery Made” But what about studying digital medium? Or publishing content that is hypermedia—Vectors or SSP?
- method or medium driven? Scholar at the center
- Moving target: looks very different every year as the technology changes and as more scholars come to the digital table Still-emerging: technical and organizational infrastructure still weak at best Enabler: powerful tools are allowing us to process and analyze information in ways that weren’t possible pre-digital. Think of slavevoyages Pace: Moving faster? Think of years in the archives vs. searching across them via the internet or Tony’s experience editing Eliot using online books
- Blurring prior binaries like creator/consumer in some of this collaborative work; enriching scholarship and collections in the process. Witness “The Great War” from U of Oxford as key example. Origins doing a similar thing as well.
- cycle includes rising prices, escalating library budgets, cut backs, and decreasing access to information: in short, what has long been termed a crisis for scholarly communication.
- Southern Spaces Voyages and Origins Global Health Chronicles Dawson Collection SouthComb
- Breaking conventions: think about an e-journal. We did in 2004 as we created Southern Spaces. Rolling publication, not package. Ensure ability to update text while also preserving cited content over time. Publish in multiple spaces (iTunes U and our own journal) to maximize reach of content. Free content (Open Access). Publishing scholarship that is multimedia in its meaning, not just in form. Optimizing use: Publishing for a web savvy audience; we’d better be using the same tools that corporations do to increase our reach. Ensuring viability: watch form, formats, etc with an eye toward long-term accessibility REQUIRES input from a wide variety of roles: scholar, marketing, designer, librarian, technologist. So did print publishing. Question is, what roles will we continue to play and how do they transform as a result of the change in media?