Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-fifth International Conference on Publishing Studies

The Information, Medium & Society: Twenty-fifth International Conference on Publishing Studies is dedicated to publishing practices as distinctive modes of social knowledge production.

Key Topics

• Mediums of Disruption
  • Defining Collaborative Relations - The Creator and the Publishe
  • Disruptive Mediums - From a Machine Age, to the Digital Age, and Beyond
  • Economic Realities - From the Printed Artifact the Digital Object
  • Framing Information Landscapes - Production, Dissemination, Access
  • Media Archaeology - Historical Contexts for Mediums of Social Practice
  • Open or Closed - Ethical Considerations for Content Creators and Publishers
• Information Foundations
  • The Social Author - Originator, Creator, Instigator?
  • Genealogies of Human Agency - Understanding the Transmission of Human Culture Through History
  • Experiential Meaning Making - Still Image, Moving Images, and Sound
  • From Oral to Textual Cultures - Our Informational Foundations
  • Whose Knowledge? - Public Good in the Pursuit of Knowledge
  • Digital Dimensions - Artificial Intelligence, Derivative Data, and Meta-Data
• Social History and Impacts
  • From the Industry to a Publishing House - Macro and Micro Organizational Cultures
  • A Social History of Publishing - The Socio-Cultural Dimeson of the Social Practice
  • Gatekeeper Effects - Whose Voices are Heard?
  • Publishing as Praxis - Feminist, LGBTQ, Post-Colonial, and Anti-Capitalist Publishing
  • Filter Bubbles - Digital Content Spaces
  • Market Forces - Determining Content
  • Core and Periphery - Considering the Globalization of the Legal Traditions of Copyright
  • Boundaries of Access -Abilities and Disabilities