Yesterday Dan Cohen, the director of the Center for History and New Media and my colleague at George Mason University, posted a thoughtful piece describing a major problem of scholarly publishing (and of book publishing more generally). Dan suggests that while the “supply” of written work has changed with the advent of digital collaborations, academic blogging, and interactive projects, the “demand” side—what readers, publishers, and rank and promotion committees expect—remains stubbornly resi..   show all text

[As Adam Soroka described in his last post, we made a shift to Omeka early in the Neatline project in order to speed development and put our work in the hands of end users already thinking about the relationship of archival collections to scholarly analysis and presentation. Omeka's plugin architecture also allows us to share individual components of the project (such as EAD import or robust SIMILE Timeline integration) with people who might not be interested in the whole geospatial workflow o..   show all text

Books in the Age of the iPad Print is dead. Digital is surging. Everyone is confused. A collections of thoughts on the future of books in the context of the iPad.

Authors: Eszter Hargittai Download: PDF (207 KB) Citation: Hargittai, E. (2010). Digital Na(t)ives? Variation in Internet Skills and Uses among Members of the “Net Generation”. Sociological Inquiry. 80(1):92-113. Abstract People who have grown up with digital media are often assumed to be universally savvy with information and communication technologies. Such assumptions are rarely grounded in empirical evidence, however. This article draws on unique data with information about a diverse group..   show all text