consequential Presidential campaigns in decades, we gather to ask how book and journal publishing matters. It is our conviction that the crescendo of conglomeration in the entertainment and publishing industries continues to shape the way we answer this question. Just as university libraries and academic journals in the humanities have been squeezed by growing monopolies in scientific publication, so too the trade presses have undergone significant transformation, as beleaguered houses cling precariously to the thin black margins that keep them afloat within larger and more profitable corporations. Many have had to moderate their tones, pander to their readers, and downsize their offerings. Likewise the hard-hitting, New Journalistic and literary "long form" of magazine and journal reporting gives way to the pseudo-cerebral sound bite, to the judiciously executed balancing acts of those ever in need of more readers. Thus the range of opinion available to a national audience consistently shrinks -- like the endangered public domain itself -- before the steady advance of Big Media. We gather to ask what can be done.
The conference will combine daily presentations by distinguished writers and editors, and roundtable discussions that will assemble representatives of different groups within the industry. The substance of conversation at these roundtables will no doubt address some of the issues noted above, but will also be determined in part by the participants themselves. All roundtables will be facilitated by UCI faculty from the School of Humanities. This event is sponsored by the Humanities Center, HumaniTech and the UCI Libraries.
This event is free and open to the public.
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"Fireside Chat" with
David
Halberstam
"Who
We Are and What We Do"
Victor
Navasky
"The Journal of Opinion: Relic or Counterforce?"
Lawrence
Lessig
"The Good of the Journal in a Digital
Age"
Panel 1 At the Edges of Academic Publishing
Panel 2 The Journal
Panel 3 Literary Culture in Los Angeles
Panel 4 In the Shadow of Big Media
Panel 5 Electronic Media and the Public Sphere
Panel 6 The Life of the Mind in Southern California
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