Wednesday, October 27, 2010

[Lib-helig-l] Open access book: Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play

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Ingrid Thomson

From: Interdisciplinary academic study of Cyber Society
[mailto:CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Joanne Roberts
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Subject: [CSL] Open access book: Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting
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From: Gary Hall [mailto:gary.hall@connectfree.co.uk]
Sent: 22 October 2010 15:37
To: CYBER-SOCIETY-LIVE@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Open access book: Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting
Information Play

PUTTING KNOWLEDGE TO WORK AND LETTING INFORMATION PLAY

An e-book produced for the 10th anniversary of the research center at
Virginia Tech, the Center for
Digital Discourse and Culture.

Available at: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/10th-book/


The e-book is free in cost, free to copy, free to distribute. The volume

confronts many of the issues in
contemporary academia as it meets the internet and computing in all of
its spheres with many specific contributions on academic publishing,
e-research, the history of the center, and related topics.

Contributions to the volume are:

Introduction
Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

The Book Unbound: Reconsidering One-Dimensionality in the Internet Age
Ben Agger

Fluid Notes on Liquid Books
Gary Hall

What Can Technology Teach Us about Texts? (and Texts about Technology?)
Jean-Claude Guedon

Open Works, Open Cultures, and Open Learning Systems
Michael A. Peters

Textscapes and Landscapes: A Settler Poet Goes On-Line
Brian Opie

Reweaving the World: The Web as Digital Discourse and Culture
Timothy W. Luke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Progress, Issues, and Prospects
Edward A. Fox, Gail McMillan, and Venkat Srinivasan

From gunny sacks to mattress vine: notes on Douglas Engelbart, Tim
O'Reilly, and the natural world
Sue Thomas

The Pleasures of Collaboration
Thom Swiss

Info-Citizens: Democracy, Expertise and Ownership in European Research
Funding
Timothy W. Luke and Jeremy Hunsinger

The New River: Collected Editors' Notes
Ed Falco, et al.

On the Origins of the Cute as a Dominant Aesthetic Category in Digital
Culture
Dylan E. Wittkower

Culture, Media, Globalization
Mark Poster

Barack Obama and Celebrity Spectacle
Douglas Kellner

A Short History of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
Jeremy Hunsinger

Digital Research and Tenure & Promotion in Colleges of Arts and
Sciences: A Thought Piece
Theodore R. Schatzki

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Gary Hall
Research Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine
http://www.culturemachine.net
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info

Latest: 'Affirmative media theory and the post-9/11 world'
http://www.garyhall.info

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Ingrid Thomson
Librarian: Humanities Information Division
Chancellor Oppenheimer Library
University of Cape Town Libraries
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7700 RONDEBOSCH
SOUTH AFRICA
 
Tel: +27 21 650 3703  Fax: +27 21 689 7569
 
 
 

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