digital text, new media, & books in Vancouver & on Van Isle. Assoc. Director @ Electronic Textual Cultures Lab, interdisciplinary PhD student
For decades, governments around the world have been wrestling with the best ways to handle the changes and opportunities of an increasingly networked world. Rapidly developing technology has posed challenges for…
Many have experimented with electronic publishing over the past few decades, from the hypertext editions of the 1990s to more recent, and more polished, design-focused endeavours (as…
Prior to the invention of the printing press, reading used to be a more collaborative activity— at least, for those who were allowed to participate (read: not women). Teachers and students would gather around manuscripts, discuss them, and insert comments via…
Since its online publication in 2009 and subsequent print publication in 2011, Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of…
Academics use social media: there is no surprise there. But how and why academics participate on social media platforms has not been thoroughly explored. In Social Media in Academia: Networked Scholars, George Veletsianos aims to…