[artinfo] Putting Knowledge to Work and Letting Information Play

[Gary Hall]

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

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