Shifting Frames: Information, Medium & Society
(Asynchronous Session - Online)
Machines that Make Us Feel Emotions More than the Reality Itself : Audiovisual Constructions of Emotions in Cinema View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Nieves Villaseca Blanco
Movies makes us cry, laugh, or be afraid of something does not really exist. Psychology studies why this happens to the audience but only researching the audiovisual techniques and the movies we can know how it is done and how it works. An analysis of movies in different countries indicates how cinema constructs emotions for the audience. Time, image, and sound are the three most important elements implicated but the possibilities are extraordinary.
The Complicated Legacies of Open Access Publishing: Lessons Learned by a Scholarly Publisher and Journal Editor View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session David Blakesley
The promise of open access in the scholarly publishing community has been well known and (sometimes) appreciated for twenty years or more. As the founder and publisher of a successful scholarly publishing company and journal editor, I have been a strong advocate of publishing open access books and journals for just as long. As a publisher, I have overseen the publication of more than fifty open access scholarly books and three series devoted to developing new open access titles. I have edited four scholarly journals, each of which still publishes content under a CC license. I remain committed to the ideal of promoting and distributing scholarly research accessible to all and not hidden behind a paywall or only available at a price to readers. I also remain committed to the ideal that authors or the institutions they represent should not be charged to make their work freely available, in spite of arguments to the contrary. Open access publishing is a potentially disruptive innovation. Unfortunately, the culture of scholarly publishing, as well as the lingering hegemony of print, has proven extremely resistant to that disruption, at least among the audiences the innovation should affect: readers, scholarly communities, libraries, and academic institutions. Why? What lessons should we have learned by now? How can we act on them? This paper presents research and experience that reveals the perilous future of open access publishing, why it remains largely misunderstood by the society it would serve, and the consequences of that misunderstanding for publishers.
Models for Scholarly Publishing: Everything Online is Free, Right? View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sandra Cowan
There are many ways to access scholarly literature online. Some are open access, some not; some are legal, some not; some are free, some not. Looking at examples such as SciELO, DOAJ, Academia, ResearchGate, and SciHub, this study compares open access, social media, and pirated international online publishing venues for "free" scholarly literature, looking at the content, licensing, scope, resourcing, and sustainability. As traditional scholarly publishing models are proving to be unsustainable, which of these could serve as a model for future online scholarly publishing?
Featured Books For Global Readers : Designing and Publishing Considerations View Digital Media
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Bahar Kucukcaglayan
The cover of the books today is very much different than the cover of the ’80s. Thirty years ago, when you look at a cover you could easily understand what the book was about, and likely to understand who it was for and what the author stood for if taking sides was necessary. Today you can buy a book in any language from your home. Some book covers are like design objects that speak for the whole variety of book readers globally. They may be great design objects, but this paper is asking questions about how globalization affects the publishing industry in terms of the book covers. Should a book cover be more than an award-winning graphic poster? Should it represent a view of the book? Is it ok if a Haruki Murakami book looks like a Dostoyevski book in any language anywhere around the world? The paper analyses new graphic design styles, content, and cover relationship and try to consider if they are obstacles for designing original covers and creating hybrid culture works. The paper also brings in censorship and e-book concepts in terms of how they change the book industry for global readers.
