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Culture

In Movie Review Multiplexes, Online Readers Join In

“So the paradox is that the Web has invigorated criticism as an activity while undermining it as a profession,” Mr. Scott said.

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Culture

Reading Dickens Four Ways

I decided to read Little Dorrit four ways: paperback, audiobook, Kindle, and iPhone.

via Reading Dickens Four Ways – ChronicleReview.com.

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Culture

A Manifesto for Scholarly Publishing

Commercial publishers, except for those who produce scientific and technical books, generally don’t traffic in hard ideas. They’re too difficult to sell in scalable numbers…

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Culture

Lingering | n+1

Naturally everyone wants to believe that by spending time online we are not steadily depriving real art, thought, and journalism of the attention and—since so much…

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Culture

Ross Douthat on ‘Digital Barbarism – A Writer’s Manifesto’

Where the critics of copyright perceive the Internet age as a potential Renaissance being blocked by overconsolidated corporations, Helprin worries, plausibly, that the spirit of…

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Media

David Carr on Twilight in the Media Profession

[A]s recently as four or five years ago, to be a member of Manhattan media, you weren’t rich, but you lived as a rich person…

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Culture

Dual Perspectives – Clive Thompson

“Games create drama and excitement,” as Jane McGonigal, one of the leading thinkers in the field, told the crowd at this year’s O’Reilly Emerging Technology…

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Culture

‘The Cranky Copyright Book’ Joe Clark

There really is a way to look at copyright that is not a form of apologia for dying “content” industries, like the music business and…

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