Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Next Step Publishing: FakePress Statement

Hi Luca,
I believe that the internet hubs such as "Google", "Yahoo", "Facebook"
etc. are the future (present) publishers, while encompassing global data
base they provide individually tailored content exemplar, according to
surfer's preferences and browsing history (including references of Google
Scholar 4 scientific content ...)
http://www.artciencia.com/Admin/Ficheiros/AVIROSEN191.pdf
A.


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Simeone
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 10:39 PM
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Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Next Step Publishing: FakePress Statement

Hi Avi & yasminers,

I see your point. What we also see though is that in some cases publishing
strategies are still partially driven by specific editorial processes. For
example, as John Wilbanks argues in a recent post published on
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/on_science_publishing
the distribution of scientific content is still strongly tied to traditional
processes even though it has obviously changed because of what you call
cyber-aura.
Publishers and the evaluation / editorial processes they set up and organize
are still an important component in selecting, packaging and distributing
scientific content. So, again, we see that some elements from the
traditional author/publisher relation are still alive and they still
profoundly affect the distribution of scientific knowledge.

Is this a value to save in the future? What will be the role of publishers
in the future? Will there be a new configuration where horizontal processes
(with no aura) cross vertical processes backed by some sort of authorities?

I guess this is our big question mark with FakePress!

Ciao
l

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Avi Rosen <avi@siglab.technion.ac.il>
wrote:
> Hi Luca & yasminers.
>
> " in (an auratic?) specific time and space"...
>
>
> When time-space is no longer experienced in Euclidian manner, the gap
> between traditional publishing and individual content distribution
> vanishes, as content rolls past the PC, tablet, or cellular   display
> according to our individual preferences and surfing history.
>
> At the turn of the twentieth century Paul Valery predicted: "Just as
> water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off
> to satisfy our need in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be
> supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and
> disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign."
>
> This fact led to a dramatic turning-point of the disappearance of the
> traditional author/publisher,  and the birth of the cyber-aura
> witnessed by the cyber-flâneur (surfer). The meaning of individual
> cyber publishing and its cyber-aura according to traditional
> iconological and iconographical tools turned irrelevant. It is now
> valued according to a system of fuzzy logic, dealing with the concept
> of partial truth with values ranging between "completely true" and
"completely false".
>
> Avi.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr
> [mailto:yasmin_discussions-bounces@estia.media.uoa.gr] On Behalf Of
> Luca Simeone
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 10:42 PM
> To: YASMIN DISCUSSIONS
> Subject: Re: [Yasmin_discussions] Next Step Publishing: FakePress
> Statement
>
> hi marc and yasminers,
>
> well, i guess our point of view is that there are several, multiple
> competing truths at the same time (or none). traditional publishing
> processes select, package and distribute information and, in so doing,
> design specific configurations of reality. fakepress wants to somewhat
> re-articulate this approach multiplying the layers related to the
> publishing process. this process (for traditional publishers) was just
> fixed and determined in (an auratic?) specific time and space. this
> sort of aura related to the publishing processes was also an important
> component to shape the authority of the publishers.
> in some ways, it's like fakepress wants to question both this
> authority and the idea that the moment of 'printing' / 'publishing' /
> 'press' is frozen in time and space. but, at the same time, we don't
> want to abandon the idea and the role of publishers if seen in a more
> open way. we still think that there is room for cultural bodies that
> select, package and distribute information, especially in this
> historical moment where the quantity of information will keep increasing
exponentially.
>
> fakepress looked like an oxymoron that represent our internal (and not
> yet
> resolved) tension.
>
> ciao!
>
> luca
>
>
>
>
>
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