It’s been a busy summer requiring lots of work other than blogging (!) but I am pleased to announce that I’ve reached an agreement with UT Press to edit a new book series on Information. Here’s the official blurb, I’ll be looking for authors.
Announcing a New Series in Information Studies
The University of Texas School of Information and the University of Texas Press are pleased to announce an unprecedented partnership to produce a series of cutting-edge books that will chart and shape the rapidly changing landscape of information technology. Planned to launch in Fall 2013, these books will provide essential and accessible reading for both producers and consumers of information.
Our information age is not a story of incremental progress—this is a new Gutenberg era that is changing the world quickly, permanently, and in ways that that we cannot easily control. The series explores and explains the emergence of the new socio-technical infrastructure in which we all now routinely live and work, make purchases and perform services, learn and communicate, create and share, without pause or concern for distance.
The creation of this new series dedicated to information reflects the need to understand our times from the perspectives of multiple disciplines and perspectives. Placing emphasis on human and social concerns, the book series will serve as a focal point for intellectually deep and vital work that addresses the most pressing information issues of our time. We seek authors who can bring scholarship and perspective to bear in the creation of thoughtful and highly readable manuscripts that examine closely the forces shaping the information worlds in which we reside.
The following are potential topics that are relevant to this series:
- Information work, practices, and organizational forms
- Digital records, archives, and curation across disciplines and collections
- Design and use of new products and services
- Scholarly practices and communication
- Health informatics
- The nature of creativity and intellectual work
- Intellectual property and law
- Intelligence, data mining, and cybersecurity
- Knowledge and literacy in a digital age
Series Editor:
Andrew Dillon is Dean of the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is also the Louis T. Yule Regents Professor of Information, Professor of Psychology, and Information, Risk & Operations Management.