Reading in an Age of Change is a collaboration between Meanjin and Overland, two of Australia’s finest literary journals, that seeks to drive rather than simply react to this debate. Throughout 2010, editors Sophie Cunningham and Jeff Sparrow will host and publish a series of events and articles that tackle the impact of digital media, shifting intellectual property rights and economic change. Speakers and guests involve some of our foremost thinkers from both Australia and overseas, including McKenzie Wark, Chris Meade, Cory Doctorow and Kate Eltham. The project will instigate a broad and varied public conversation on the future of reading, and shed some light on literary culture in years to come.
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You may remember Cory Doctorow from such popular, madcap adventures as Boing Boing. Or one of his many, many books, including his latest, Little Brother. Or the Makers revolution (no, I do not mean his novel by the same name). Well, he's coming to Melbourne tomorrow night.
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Posted at Wednesday 01 Sep
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For years now, Cory Doctorow has been something of the go-to guy for all things digital. His blog, craphound.com, and external website, boingboing, give a fair idea of what he’s all about – gaming, DIY, distribution, technology, sci-fi, pop culture and, of course, copyright. It would probably be too simplistic to say that he’s outright against it, but he is certainly a big campaigner for experimentation, and for rewriting the rulebook.
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Posted at Thursday 26 Aug
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How does YouTube, with its infinite number of daily uploads, regulate such a flood of data? How does it balance the needs of its audience against the interests of bigger film and music corporations?
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Posted at Tuesday 24 Aug
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Wired calls the death of the web; Tim O'Reilly questions it; another writer points out that 'everything' has died in the past few decades; there is debate about poetry and the electronic form and the BBC has a new archive of old interviews with writers. All this and more.
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Posted at Friday 20 Aug
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So you, the reader, want to save independent publishing in Australia? Go forth and buy a book. Be daring: buy an armful. The truly intrepid might add a subscription, or several, to one of Australia’s exceptional literary journals – a commitment to the health of the Australian literary scene, if you will.
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Posted at Wednesday 18 Aug
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But in Australia, as far as the election goes, the online environment – from Twitter brawls to polling analysis – leaves the newspaper for dead. While the Age, the Australian et al do eventually catch-up, the online community’s already been there, dissected it and thrown the funeral.
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Posted at Friday 13 Aug
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We’re going to try something new at Meanland. (Actually, it’s something shamelessly ‘borrowed’ from Meanjin’s Fat Cactus. In fact, all the cool blogs across the interwebs seem to be doing it.)
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Posted at Thursday 12 Aug
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Before I started blogging, I had minimal interest in short films. Or rather, I might have been interested, but I didn’t have easy access. Since we started Spike, however, I’ve probably watched at least two or three a week, simple by virtue of various RSS feeds, blogs and Twitter, and as such become a pretty avid fan of animation.
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Posted at Monday 09 Aug
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At one point in time, long ago, say the 1970s, we had quarterly journals. No electronic publishing, no blogs and far fewer submissions. Mr Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, estimated: ‘Back in the 1930s, magazines like the Yale Review or VQR saw maybe 500 submissions in a year; today, we receive more like 15,000.’
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Posted at Thursday 05 Aug
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The idea that the printing press democratised reading, writing and ideas is widely embraced. This is not to suggest it was – or remains in its internet incarnation – politically progressive or, indeed, revolutionary.
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Posted at Thursday 29 Jul
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