“Now is the time when we can make counternarratives. It’s important for us to give more tools to empower creative makers,” beyond corporate owned platforms, says #MLA23
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Future of books, stories, platforms, games, VR, AR. Fulbright Scholar. Assoc. Prof. Portland State:Book Publishing & Digital Humanities. Rowing, bikes, beaches.
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“There is no utopia in Silicon Valley platforms, even if resistant work can be made in the storyscapes there,” says #MLA23.
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TODAY, 3:30: Humanities+: Career-Minded Approaches to Humanities Teaching and Research
3 approaches: genetic encoding & film studies by
; Applied Humanities major (A-P Durand); my Building a Humanities-focused Creative Industries Program.
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There are a number of discussion groups (in person and virtual) on Friday and Saturday in the #MLA23 Professional Development Hub--check out the list below. Please join us! twitter.com/MLAnews/status
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Join our panel on Adaptation and the Metaverse, Friday 10:15 AM #MLA23
if you are interested in a critical approach to Meta, Metaverse, and beyond. #Meta #Metaverse
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Shocking lapse from -- TRUST, named a Top Ten book of the year by , is OUT OF STOCK.
Hernan Diaz deserves much better treatment.
nytimes.com/2022/11/29/boo
Paperback in mid-January 2023.
“Surprised by hope.” Josephine Woolington trained her attention on the relationships between animals, plants, humans, place and Native wisdom as she traveled around the PNW immediately after Covid. Read her new book WHERE WE CALL HOME for sale .
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Public library DEFUNDED because it continues to circulate 5 challenged books about #LGBTQ+ themes.
Some residents demanded all books with LGBTQ+ themes be removed: 90 books total -- less than 1/100th of collection.
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Alarming and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has essentially defunded the Patmos Library. This is short sighted and punishes, irreparably, the entire community. Read MLA's statement here on the 2nd failed attempt to pass a 10-year millage in Jamestown MI: milibraries.org/index.php?opti
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Highly relevant to #DH folks.
Join the DH community talking via Mastodon, Hcommons, and other places. twitter.com/quinnanya/stat
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Taylor Jenkins Reid talking about CARRIE SOTO IS BACK with at #PDXbookfest. Original title: The Bitch Is Back. Publisher nixed it. “You can take a sharpie and write bitch on my copy,” said Strayed.
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Packed house for ’s popup reading & Q&A about LOVE, DANCE & EGGROLLS at Portland Book Festival. Talking about being one of the very few Filipinos in all-white midwestern community. book available at #pdxbookfest
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Immer reader, a very interesting alternative to ebook readers. Many levels of customization to give readers a more physical sense of what the text looks like in its entirety. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Niels ‘t Hooft, a game designer, invented Lotus, a novella optimized for various dimensions of mobile reading (chunked small, use of color for character POV, etc.) Immer, a test app in the Netherlands, now has 50k users, books from 30 publishers. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Progress in making PDFs more accessible to the 43M people globally who are blind and low vision. Here’s the machine learning/AI automated method of extraction and export to HTML. Panel: Bill McCoy, Lucy Lu Wang, Zoya Zilinskii, Rick, Pamela Berkman. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Adam Hyde discussing speed of Preprint mechanism as a technical service in the academic journal ecosystem to solve the slowness problem: the long delay between completion of the research & its official publication. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Open review communities will deploy existing publishing infrastructures. Notify in particular (in my, Kathi’s) experience that can promote interconnection between open access repositories & and commercial systems. Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Repositories are key to local universities owning their own research. To own the infrastructure. “We want our cloud to live in Africa.” Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Librarians are key to sustainable African research networks. Lu sense is strengthening open science in Africa. Regional & continental consortia. Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Discoverability is a major challenge for African research networks. They are producing more than the 2% of world research credited to them; but accounting for the outputs is hampered by various factors. Morning keynote by Omo Oaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Values-based, intentional book publishing can also make bank. People support these books because they reinforce lived experience & values that percolate through both the content & company structure. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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In the indie press environment, authors benefit from an HTML-based single source production because they can review design prototypes while still editing the mss. More time for stakeholder buy in because the publisher “can show them the cool stuff earlier.” #pagebreak
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Norton & other edu publishers— student demand for digital books shifted overnight during Covid & continues to grow. Where to invest in quality & craft in digital? UX. #pagebreak
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Another use case for single source production: when the source material is dynamic & iterating, as in source code documentation. Listening to tech writer for RaspberryPi. #pagebreak
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Single source production is more accessible than traditional publishing workflows. Editors can touch the design. More dialogue, feedback. Faster. One example: #pagebreak
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LOVING that speakers are thus far >50% women in book tech. Here: Barbara Reuhling. Already valuable information & conversations. #pagebreakconf #pagebreak
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In late 2020, @rachellynchase & @kathiiberens did this badass survey about book consumption. They asked a ton of readers a boatload of questions, like where they discover books, where they get their books, and how they consume 'em. And they discovered SO MUCH INTERESTING STUFF.
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Out of those surveyed, millenials consume the most books
Black and Latinx millenials are the most avid readers
People multitask a lot when reading, especially w/ audiobooks and ebooks
Book piraters are also book buyers—they even tend to purchase more books than non-piraters
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Why do Gen Z & Millennials use #Amazon like a library?
What do their media behaviors say about the future of books?
Hear & I share insights from surveying 2000+ #GenZ & #Millennials.
in SF, CA
pagebreakconf.com/schedule
eventbrite.com/e/pagebreak-co
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Dr. @kathiiberens is Associate Professor and Consultant of Book Publishing and VR/AR at @Portland_State. She consults with libraries, publishers, and other book organizations about GenZ and millennial media behaviors.
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For those of you who know more & have known my career, I can't tell you how ecstatic I am that we got this Assoc Prof w/tenure position for #digitalhumanities
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How do #BIPOC #GenZ & #Millennials discover, buy, borrow, & download books?
Come hear me & present **brand new 2022 data** at the -- the nexus of publishing & tech in San Francisco Oct. 27-28!
TICKETS: pagebreakconf.com
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Congrats to Rachels (Done and Noorda; student and research professor) on their excellent work leading a team that uncovered how the book publishing supply chain can be more #green and support #environmentalsustainability.
Grad student-led, industry-focused #FTW
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This is pretty late, but lets just say graduating school kept me super busy!
But anyways, you should checkout this podcast that @rachellynchase and I did for Ooligan Press with Christopher Locke. You can check it via the link her…lnkd.in/gY8ydqtr lnkd.in/gft9rvzT
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Every week but especially during #BannedBooksWeek, we believe in the power of collective action. So here's some grassroots good: after fundraising earlier this year, we gave over 1,500 care packages with these books to orgs that serve LGBTQIA+ youth! 💖🌈
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We’re declaring all 81 Chicago Public Libraries as Book Sanctuaries to protect the freedom to read. Join the Read-sistance at TheBookSanctuary.org. #TheBookSanctuary
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Come hear some of the best minds talk about the future of publishing. PageBreak! Oct 27,28. San Francisco. Register now! pagebreakconf.com #publishing #innovation
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Delighted to be the 2,392nd 👻 on for **50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon**
Such a cool project. I've been following creator for yonks and backed his other projects, (e.g. Ice Bound).
#selfpublishing win
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So wonderful to be there to share in the celebration for @GeoffRockwell and all of the many people around the world who contribute to this fantastic DH tool ecology. ❤️ #DH2022 twitter.com/ADHOrg/status/
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