Technology and Publishing: The Work of Scholarship in the Age of its Digital Reproducibility | ASIS&T

"Yet, is the digital age so different from the “Age of Mechanical Reproduction” noted by Walter Benjamin early in the twentieth century? Why should new technological mutations drive the ways in which humanities scholars disseminate their work? And is there a danger, we might ask, in letting technological fetishism act as determiners of humanities scholarship? In this talk, Professor Martin Paul Eve will address these matters, which are formative elements of the terrain on which scholarship in the twenty-first century will emerge."