A new study finds widespread adoption of social-media tools--especially generic, ready-to-use ones like Twitter and Facebook--and a growing sense that they offer a way around traditional publishing and its hurdles. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
Journalism
“Twain Tales: How a University Project, Press, and Library Crafted a Best-Seller”
A behind-the-scenes look at editing and funding the first volume of the Autobiography of Mark Twain, published by the University of California Press and edited by scholars at the Mark Twain Project, based at the University of California at Berkeley. Half a million copies of the book are now in print. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Creative Writing Has a Place in Academe, if You Play Your Cards Right, Speakers Say”
Speakers at an AWP panel talked frankly, even profanely, about persevering as money gets scarcer and pressure to enroll more students grows. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“In Creative-Writing Programs, Muses and Scholarly Rigor Try to Coexist”
In the U.K. and Australia, the PhD in creative writing is far more common than the MFA. Panelists at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs in Washington, D.C., talked about the ups and downs of combining creative work with critical self-analysis. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Hot Type: Scholars Create Influential Journal for About $100 a Year”
The editors of the open-access, online-only Journal of Herpetological Conservation and Biology bring a by-their-bootstraps, DIY ethic to scholarly publishing. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
