Arts and Events Calendar

The Annenberg Research Park Colloquium Series Multimedia Literacy track continues on October 7 with a presentation by Kathleen Fitzpatrick, associate professor in the Department of English/Media Studies at Pomona College and founder and co-coordinating editor of MediaCommons, an all-electronic scholarly publishing network.

Fitzpatrick will offer an overview of MediaCommons, and discuss Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology and the Future of the Academy, which focuses "not just on the technological changes that many believe are necessary to allow academic publishing to flourish into the future, but on the social, intellectual and institutional changes that are necessary to pave the way for such flourishing."