On the formation of social knowledge, navigating the construction of shared knowledge of the cultural and natural worlds, interweaving these with individual and community subjectivities.
Living Tensions:
Genealogies of Human Agency – Understanding the Transmission of Human Culture Through History
The Social Author – Originator, Creator, Instigator?
From Oral to Textual Cultures – Our Informational Foundations
Experiential Meaning Making – Still Image, Moving Images, and Sound
Digital Dimensions – Artificial Intelligence, Derivative Data, and Meta-Data
Whose Knowledge? – Public Good in the Pursuit of Knowledge
Theme 2: Mediums of Disruption
On the changing processes of textual production and distribution from past to present, and the impacts of digitization and the internet on the future of publishing.
Living Tensions:
Disruptive Mediums – From a Machine Age, to the Digital Age, and Beyond
Defining Collaborative Relations – The Creator and the Publishe
Framing Information Landscapes – Production, Dissemination, Access
Economic Realities – From the Printed Artifact the Digital Object
Open or Closed – Ethical Considerations for Content Creators and Publishers
Media Archaeology – Historical Contexts for Mediums of Social Practice
Theme 3: Social History and Impacts
On the interdisciplinary and practice-focused nature of publishing as a domain of research, and measures of social impact.
Living Tensions:
A Social History of Publishing – The Socio-Cultural Dimeson of the Social Practice
From the Industry to a Publishing House – Macro and Micro Organizational Cultures
Publishing as Praxis – Feminist, LGBTQ, Post-Colonial, and Anti-Capitalist Publishing
Gatekeeper Effects – Whose Voices are Heard?
Market Forces – Determining Content
Filter Bubbles – Digital Content Spaces
Boundaries of Access –Abilities and Disabilities
Core and Periphery – Considering the Globalization of the Legal Traditions of Copyright