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Publishing as a Vocation Studies of an Old Occupation in a New Technological Era
By Irving Horowitz
Copyright 2011
167 Pages
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Routledge
188 Pages
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Routledge
167 Pages
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Routledge
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The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication. Publishers are now part of the astonishing transformation of the slow to the instant. From twitters to bloggers, the communication of ideas can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes, not weeks, months, or even years. Horowitz believes that at its best, information technology can be harnessed to facilitate... Read more
Introduction Publishing as a Vocation: An Old Profession in a New Technological Era; 1: Technology and Morality in Publishing; 1: Publishing Challenges in the New Century; 2: Technological Rabbits and Communication Turtles; 3: Tripartite Nature of University Presses; 4: Limits of Standardization in Scholarship; 5: Publishing, Property, and Information Structures; 6: Specialization in the Electronic World; 7: Social Science and Scholarly Communication; 8: Open Access and Closed Minds; 2: The Political Economy of Publishing; 9: Professional Ambitions and Public Interests; 10: Formatting Ideology through Tabloid Politics; 11: Scholarly Pornography; 12: Publishing Programs and Political Dilemmas; 13: Political Periodicals in Policy Formation; 14: Monopolization of Publishing and Crisis in Education; 15: Publishing Responses to Economic Crisis; 16: Publishing as a Vocation: The Necessity of Independence
Biography
Irving Horowitz
