Is the iPad killing academic publishing?

Roxanne Missingham

Contents

• Times of change• The word as a radical tool• Scholarly communication

– The scholars desk– Dense information– Locking up academic publishing– App world

• A future narrative

Winds of change

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/change/

Winds of change

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/change/

Change: It’s Okay. Really. Since 1768. Really.

Pew research

http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Mar/NROC.aspx

Print – not dead yet

iPads even a 2 year old can use them

Is a 2 year old a model for researchers?

Words: radical and transformative

• For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding …

What does this mean for scholarly communication mean?

mrkuroud.tumblr.com/

After ipad?

http://politicsjob.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/look-like-pro-clear-off-that-messy-desk.html

Dense information

Read short segments Can use dense complex publication

Our mutual friend4224p, 2668p

Our mutual friend 985 p

annotations – an impossible dream

Marginalia, the print experience

Access to lots of information – reliable, long term?

Quality – role of scholarly publishersMany versions

Mobile and tablets vs print

http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law_sites/library/pdf/RBR_items/pdf/F10RecentAcqsExhibitHandout.pdf

Locking up access to information

• Deep web• When is open really open• Risks to research, teaching and learning

and collaboration• Locking up is more thank big

publishers….electoral rolls and more

App world

http://mashable.com/2011/12/23/top-10-apps/#4008910-Twitter

Angry birdsFacebookSkypeAngry birds RioGoogle MapsiBooks

Angry birds seasonsFruit ninjaTalking TomTwitter

Top 10 in 2011

Debates

• Joseph Konrath “Amazon will destroy you”

• Emma Wright. “The future of the book business”– Publishing quality– Reading (esp children)– Market and value

Remembering and knowing• Students operate in print and e environments

• Garland study– Small differences but– More repetition required for digital texts to impart

the same information – Book readers digest material more easily

(Szalavitz, Maria “Do e-books make it harder to remember what you just read?”)

A future narrative

• Digital coevolution (Nick Harkaway)

• Academic scholarship and publishing

data vs publishing

http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/just-landed-a-twitter-visualization-in-processing/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/blprnt/sets/72157627854698933/?page=2

http://datavisualization.ch/showcases/obama-one-people/

http://mashable.com/2010/07/21/twitter-moods-map/

• Will a design for a 2 year old suit academic publishing?

• Is the battle for quality worth fighting for?

• Is closed collaboration the alternative?• Message in a bottle…..

… the electronic screen lends the text within its frame the eternally pristine appearance of a newly cut page, and this produces in me a distancing feeling that, like Brecht’s dramatic techniques, allows me a freer reading, uncluttered by the sense of labouring under previous perusals by myself and others.Alberto Manguel cited in Barmé

Either you print things out, and find yourself oppressed by piles of documents you’ll never read, or you read online, but as soon as you click onto the next page you forget what you’ve just read, the very thing that has brought you to the page now on your screenAlberto Manguel cited in Barmé

Comments….

References• Barmé, G. R. (2011) “Slow reading and fast reference, East Asian history 37.

http://www.eastasianhistory.org/37/barme • Boston College, Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room (2010) Recent additions

to the collection – Fall 2010: An illustrated guide to the exhibit. http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law_sites/library/pdf/RBR_items/pdf/F10RecentAcqsExhibitHandout.pdf

• Britannica Editors (2012) Change: It’s Okay. Really. Encyclopaedia Britannica Blog. http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/change/

• Brockman, J. ed. (2012) How is the Internet changing the way you think? Allen & Unwin. (also see review by Appleyard at http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2012/01/appleyard-internet-book)

• Elliott, V. (2010) ‘Why then we rack the value’ Building Value Frameworks for Academic Libraries, presentation to CAUL. http://www.caul.edu.au/content/upload/files/best-practice/caul20101elliott-value.pdf

• Harkaway, N. (2012) ... everything looks like a nail... Futurebook blog. http://www.futurebook.net/content/everything-looks-nail

• Konrath, J. (2012) Amazon Will Destroy You, blog. • http://jakonrath.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/amazon-will-destroy-you.html • Murphy, S. (2012) Top 10 Apps Downloaded in 2011, Mashable.

http://mashable.com/2011/12/23/top-10-apps/#4008910-Twitter• Plato's Phaedrus from Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9, translated by Harold N. F

owler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

• Rainie, L. (2012) The Shifting Education Landscape: Networked Learning, Pew Research. http://www.pewinternet.org/Presentations/2012/Mar/NROC.aspx

• Szalavitz, M. (2012) Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? TimeHealthland. http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memory/

• telstarlogistics (2010) A 2.5 Year-Old Has A First Encounter with An iPad, YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT4EbM7dCMs

• Wright, E. (2010) The Future of the Book Business: A Classicist’s View, Futurebook blog. http://www.futurebook.net/content/future-book-business-classicist’s-view