The question of how innovation in scholarly publishing comes about is crucial, given the speed of technological change and the quickly modified forms by which knowledge is generated and presents itself. Many if not all existing publishers and publications continue to adhere almost exclusively to the book or journal, forms whose time frames for acquisition, marketing, and production are tied to anachronistic and often oppressive communication technologies that perpetuate assumptions about what content is and how it is generated. But how do we unpack how these assumptions determine what scholarship does or the forms it takes? In particular, how can we transform new thinking about scholarship to effect alternative publication formats, which may or may not avail themselves of the digital? This panel foregrounds work that describes and contextualizes particular difficulties or impasses presented by the scholarly publication ecosystem; this is work that contemplates and/or enacts solutions that generate unalloyed (not to say utopian) manifestations of research that form topographies of new publication landscapes.
Organizer:
Tim Roberts
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