As part of the Creativity & Collaboration in the Academy initiative, the USC Office of Research and the Norman Lear Center present Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies at Pomona College for her talk, titled “The Humanities in and for the Digital Age.”
The spread of digital technologies has presented scholars in the humanities with some extraordinary opportunities, as well as a few challenges, not least for their modes of communicating with one another. This talk will explore some of the changes taking place in the humanities today and their implications for scholars and their institutions. How will our ways of thinking about scholarly communication change as we do more and more of our work on digital platforms?
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 | 4 to 5 pm (reception to follow)
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism | Room 207
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language Association, and Professor of Media Studies (currently on leave), Pomona College. She is author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy, published in 2011 by NYU Press and previously made available for open peer review online, and of The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television, published in 2006 by Vanderbilt University Press. She is co-founder of the digital scholarly network MediaCommons.
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