Publishing in an age of change:
a collaborative project by
Meanjin, Overland
and if:book.
Publishing in an Age of Change is a collaboration between three of Australia’s leading literary incubators: Meanjin, Overland and if:book, that seeks to drive rather than simply react to the debate surrounding the digitization of communication.
Since 2010 Meanland has hosted and published events and articles that tackle the impact of digital media, shifting intellectual property rights and economic change on publishers, writers and readers. In that time we’ve heard from some of the foremost thinkers and writers working in this field including: McKenzie Wark, Chris Meade, Cory Doctorow and Kate Eltham.
In 2012 we’ll continue that trend, as we hear from voices such as Christy Dena, Lisa Dempster and Simon Groth. We’re interested in what you think too.
Find us on Twitter.
–John Weldon Meanland Coordinator
Long form, I propose, means ‘essay’. It can include but is not limited to technology essays, academic essays, New Yorker essays. It is a term created to describe a form established and practiced pre-Internet. Can it survive online? …read more »
There are 118,098,965 domains active – in the US. Numbers for Australian websites are harder to come by. Technorati and Blogscope have stats and usage data on bloggers blogging, why they do it and when, all suggesting the blogosphere is growing. …read more »
How do you judge a book by its cover if it doesn't have one? The issue is perhaps more complex than one might initially think. Covers are, after all, not only a matter of aesthetics, but also important social signifiers. …read more »
An online writer can work with whatever style and content they prefer, but are they thinking about their medium and audience when they sit down to write? Because writing for the internet is structurally and functionally different to writing for print. The most important things to remember are audience, environment and interactivity. …read more »
Popular Science+ has been adapted for the iPad. And it's exciting. …read more »
All about the Google Reader – a web-based reader application that helps you keep track of the content continually being updated on the internet, whether the content is taken from blogs, newspapers, journals, podcasts or other audio and video content. …read more »
A video exploring the relationship between humans and computers. …read more »
What I'm interested in here is changing practices: what does creativity really mean in the digital era and to what extent are we entitled to use, sample or splice from the vast array of ideas available online? How do authors cope with these varied pressures? Has the internet changed this or simple exacerbated old problems? …read more »
Reading anxiety (different to the semiotic anxiety of reading that involves wresting with signs, decoding and privilege) has me in its ice-cold clutches of late. I find that I am breaking out in feelings of inadequacy and time-negligence while I busy myself with non-reading activities. And is it any wonder? We have moved from a time when they was a limited number of periodicals and books published in Australia each year to a world of multitudinous words within a moment’s grasp. …read more »
What is this eReader I’ve been hearing so much about and will it bring meaning to my life? An eReader is a device designed to read digital books and publications, or digital texts, more commonly referred to as eBooks. …read more »