2nd Edition
Communicating Ideas The Politics of Scholarly Publishing
By Irving Louis Horowitz
Copyright 1991
330 Pages
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Routledge
332 Pages
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Routledge
356 Pages
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Routledge
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Communicating Ideas is the first attempt to place publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. The book addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of the new computerized technology. Horowitz does so by examining classic problems of political theory in the context of property rights versus the presumed right to know, and the special strains... Read more
1: Valuational Presuppositions of the New Technology; 2: New Technologies, Scientific Information, and Democratic Choice; 3: Technological Impacts on Scholarly Publishing; 4: The Political Economy of Database Technology; 5: Copyright Legislation and Its Consequences; 6: The Reproduction of Knowledge and the Maintenance of Property; 7: From Computer Revolution to Intellectual Counter-revolution; 8: Scholarly Communication and Academic Publishing; 9: Expropiating Ideas—The Politics of Global Publishing; 10: Scientific Access and Political Constraint to Knowledge; 11: From Means of Production to Modes of Communication; 12: Advertising Ideas and Marketing Products; 13: Gatekeeping Functions and Publishing Truths; 14: The Social Structure of Scholarly Communication; 15: Social Science as Scholarly Communication; 16: Experts, Audiences, and Publics; 17: The Changing System of Author-Publisher Relations; 18: Specialist Journals in America: Romantic Highs and Fiscal Bottoms; 19: Publishing About Philanthropy; 20: The Place of the Festschrift in Scholarly Publishing; 21: Publishing, Prizing, and Praising; 22: The Forms of Democracy: The Place of Scientific Standards in Advanced Societies; 23: Toward a History of Social Science Publishing; 24: Scholarly Publishing as the Word Made Flesh
Biography
Irving Louis Horowitz
