Event overview
A public lecture by Professor John B. Thompson focusing on the future of publishing, the question of technology, the power of the text and its authority.
As debate continuities and transformations rather than revolutions in the publishing industry. It will consider whether the revolution will be digital at all.
This public lecture is hosted by Centre for Creative and Social Technologies and the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing.
Context:
If a transformation has taken place in the publishing industry, Thompson maintains that it is in respect of the publishing process rather than the product and that the cause or stimulus is financial as much as technological and likely to be more widespread and complex than that. Although he is resistant to digital hyperbole, he is interested in how value might be added to the industry through the process of digitisation: increased ease of access; updatable material; increased scale; better searchability; greater portability; the introduction of multimedia. Nevertheless, he does not consider the relation between value and creativity, authorship/collaboration, authority and trust and the emergence of a potentially new business ethics rather than business model.
About Professor John Thompson:
John B. Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He is the recent author of ‘Books in the Digital Age: The Transformation of Academic and Higher Education Publishing in Britain and the United States’ (Cambridge: Polity, 2005). and ‘Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century’ (Cambridge: Polity, 2010).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Mar 2012 | 10:30am - 1:00pm |
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