Magazine Production Research Articles

Regulaciones sobre las revistas literarias/culturales en Argentina

We propose an exploratory study on the incidence of the different levels of restrictions that regulate conduct proposed by Lawrence Lessig (1998): legal, social norms, market and architecture, on the circuit of production, circulation and consumption of literary magazines in Argentina. Academic studies around literary magazines tend to direct their attention as an episode and stage of life in the professional career of writers and/or intellectuals, or they constitute research that thinks of magazines as a space for cultural realization and exchange. However, literary magazines in their productive circuit are an area of academic vacancy, a field that becomes more complex with the incidence of new technologies in the forms of production, distribution circuits and modes of consumption in all Cultural Industries. Lessig’s analysis of literary magazines allows us to reflect on the role of the State as guarantor of the right to freedom of expression and thought, as well as to analyze the social practices that characterize this niche audience. New technologies have modified reading habits, making the social role that literary and cultural magazines need to reframe. This study proposes a multidimensional view on the crisis that cultural magazines suffer in Argentina, in their levels of production, circulation and consumption.

Un acercamiento a los lectores de las publicaciones de la Secretarí­a de Educación Pública, 1921-1934

En este artí­culo examino los discursos sobre la lectura de una selección de trabajadores (obreros, comerciantes y de diversos oficios) surgidos en el marco de la polí­tica educativa de la Secretarí­a de Educación Pública (SEP) desde su fundación, en 1921, hasta antes de la implantación de la educación socialista durante el cardenismo. Para ello, es importante señalar los cambios y continuidades en la polí­tica educativa, pues determinaron la producción, los contenidos y la distribución de materiales impresos: libros, revistas, manuales y folletos que formaban los acervos de las bibliotecas populares. No obstante, el objetivo principal es mostrar las formas en que los lectores se relacionaron con la cultura impresa. Busco contribuir a la historiografí­a de la lectura en México, no solamente a partir del estudio de la producción de materiales y el diseño de polí­ticas editoriales, sino también "al ubicar a lectores en situaciones históricas concretas" con el análisis de la recepción y consumo de los bienes culturales.

BIBLIOMETRIA E METASSÍNTESE DE ESTUDOS SOBRE TRABALHO PUBLICADOS NA REVISTA PSICOLOGIA & SOCIEDADE

RESUMO Este artigo apresenta uma análise descritiva e exploratória sobre as publicações do periódico online Psicologia & Sociedade, que abordam a categoria 'trabalho' como objeto de estudo. Foi realizada em quatro etapas, sendo a primeira bibliométrica: quantificação da produção da revista no quinquênio 2010-2014, em todas as suas categorias de publicações. As fases posteriores corresponderam à metassíntese dos títulos e resumos dos artigos, com recorte especial no método de cada produção. Por último, dois artigos provenientes de pesquisas teóricas foram analisados, de modo a subsidiar uma crítica interna à produção científica. Os resultados demonstraram que a revista tem expressiva produção no campo da Psicologia do Trabalho, sendo esta uma categoria fundamental para a compreensão histórica e cultural da subjetividade e dos processos de saúde e adoecimento, como também, asseveraram acerca da qualidade das publicações, concretizando a proposta do periódico em estabelecer um diálogo constante da ciência psicológica com a sociedade.

Making It News: Money and Marketing in the Expatriate Modernist Little Magazine in Europe

This article deals with practical and economic aspects of expatriate little magazine production and should be seen as furthering the understanding of the economic and promotional underpinnings of modernist cultural expression in the 1920s and 30s. In particular, the article indicates to what extent literary ambitions and idealistic actions associated with the editing of a little magazine on the European continent intermingled with material and promotional concerns. Moreover, by focusing on expatriate little magazines, the article emphasizes the significance of geographical location for both practical and marketing purposes. Marketing ambitions blended with tactics for gaining legitimacy, and promotional language provided a valuable tool for advancing sales as well as cultural credibility. One important way of catering to economic interests while upholding literary ambitions was to incorporate the magazines into the flow of news, suggesting an affinity with publication types dedicated to hot topics, large readerships, and the journalistic virtue of presence on the scene. Designating the little magazine and its literary content as news therefore complicates and troubles the boundary between elitist and popular culture.

Migration patterns: two little magazines of 1960–1962

ABSTRACTThis article investigates the legacy of the short-lived but influential little magazine Migrant (1959–1960), considering the extent to which two subsequent publications – Mica and Satis (both 1960–1962) – inherited its contributors, style and poetic preoccupations. Through an approach combining traditional literary and textual history and data-driven social network analysis, Mica and Satis are placed side by side, offering a dual perspective on the British and North American poetic avant gardes in the early 1960s. The British poet J.H. Prynne is identified as representative of a younger generation of poets who came into contact with the Migrant legacy through these secondary publications, and his contributions to the scene, both intellectual and organisational, are considered in detail. The practical aspects of magazine production are examined on the same level as the artistic ones in a provisional effort to establish a more holistic conception of the form, seeing little magazines not just as preliminary receptacles for poetic work but as distinct forms of practice in their own right.

Philologen in der NS-Schrifttumspolitik und ihre Observationen der Gegenwartsliteratur 1933–1945

During the 1930s and 1940s, the publishing sphere in Germany had to adapt to substantial ideological imperatives. It was subject to the control ofvarious often rivaling institutions of censorship. These censoring institutions employed literary scholars to observe and influence the growing production of books and magazines. This paper reconstructs the practices these literary scholars employed for dealing with contemporary literature in an ideologically conditio- ned setting. It engages with the still largely unexplored relation between academic socialization, interpretative practices and politically motivated interventions

Mocking Men of Power: Comic Art in Birmingham, 1861–1911 by Stephen Roberts and Roger Ward

Reviewed by: Mocking Men of Power: Comic Art in Birmingham, 1861–1911 by Stephen Roberts and Roger Ward Richard Scully (bio) Stephen Roberts and Roger Ward, Mocking Men of Power: Comic Art in Birmingham, 1861–1911 (Birmingham: Birmingham Biographies, 2014), pp. iv+ 148, £8.99 paperback. The authors of this tremendous little volume have done a great service to the scholarship on Victorian comic art and the satirical press in a key non-Metropolitan context. The excessive scholarly and popular focus on London-based satirical art is something that has only recently come under scrutiny. Henry Miller, in “The Problem with Punch” (Historical Research 82, no. 216 [2009]: 285–302), was arguably the first to take aim at how scholars have largely ignored provincial Britain (as did Punch itself), despite the flourishing and strikingly original work that appeared in comic periodicals published in centers like Birmingham, Liverpool, and Norwich. What Miller hinted at—that Birmingham was probably the most important of these locations—is now affirmed by the good work of Roberts and Ward. The book is divided into three main parts: an introduction, a useful chronology, and then the bulk of the volume, which offers commentary on sixty selected cartoons. This commentary is presented in the manner of W. A. Coupe’s foundational method of cartoon analysis in the 1980s and 1990s. Helpful front and back matter includes a section on further reading, which is important considering that scholarship on the Birmingham-based satirical press is new and uncharted. In their introduction, the authors explore the important broader context for satirical magazine production. The opening section, “Punch for Birmingham,” provides a tantalizing glimpse of the excessiveness of the seriocomic industry in the Midland Metropolis (this despite so few of the known periodicals having survived the intervening decades). Similarly tantalizing and worthy of further meticulous research is Roberts and Ward’s unique exploration of the owners and writers of these ephemeral publications and the content they fostered. On par with their focus on the men behind the business of satirical journalism is their examination of the cartoonists themselves, which forms the longest section of the introduction. Therein, key personalities like the influential George Henry Bernasconi (1841–1916) and the lesser-known Ernest Chesmer Mounford (1844–1922) and George Joseph Sershall (1839–1908) are given deserved consideration. The authors also draw attention to the Birmingham apprenticeship of Ally Sloper artist William Giles Baxter (1856–1888), who drew for the Owl before moving to London in 1882. Henry Miller observed that in the 1890s the beginning of the nationalization of the press produced much of this thriving provincial culture of difference, but Roberts and Ward have found that periodicals like the Owl, Dart, Town Crier, and Gridiron provided a powerful venue for Birmingham [End Page 729] cartoonists right down to the end of the Edwardian period. Their work therefore adds much to our understanding of how Victorian periodical culture persisted beyond the nominal and convenient end date of tradition. As might be expected, the chief focus for Bernasconi and his fellow cartoonists was Joseph Chamberlain, a dominant figure in Birmingham politics throughout the period. The monocled radical-cum-imperialist was lauded and lampooned on a regular basis in periodicals like the Owl and the Dart. But to their credit, Roberts and Ward broaden their focus to observe how other Birmingham politicians and personalities (including Francis Schnadhorst, George Dawson, and Robert Dale) were treated by cartoonists. That said, the Chamberlain material is perhaps the most interesting in the volume, making it an ideal adjunct to other recent studies of “Joe” that have emphasized his international, national, and local importance. Ian Cawood and Chris Upton have provided the best of these recent studies in a chapter on Birmingham satirical journals published in their own edited collection, Joseph Chamberlain: International Statesman, National Leader, Local Icon (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2016). Reading their work in tandem with Roberts and Ward’s study is the surest way to open up new perspectives on an under-studied field. As the authors also point out, the editions of the Owl and the Dart on which the book has been based rest conveniently in the Birmingham Midland Institute’s Library, just waiting...

“Get Swiping!”

This paper argues that in the period between 2010 and 2014, magazine production and consumption practices changed so dramatically that the question about where and how we read magazines now redefines how we conceptualise what a magazine is and what it means to “read” one. This paper engages with Chris Peters’ contention that space, speed, and convenience are critical factors to consider when we interrogate how audiences consume media across transmedia platforms. This study makes a case that the magazine editor plays a crucial role in educating readers how to navigate this new reading environment. It also argues that high-quality custom (public relations) magazines, like the Fitness First magazine, should not be ignored in discussions about magazine culture and the place of magazines in journalism studies.

Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital AgeBrooke ErinDuffy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013.

Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age Brooke Erin Duffy. Champaign: University Illinois Press, 2013.What is a magazine ? Recent changes in publishing have complicated this seemingly obvious question, and Brooke Erin Duffy details these developments in her timely study the magazine industry. Remake, Remodel: Women's Magazines in the Digital Age examines the ways in which an expanding digital marketplace has prompted a reimagining the mission, format, and strategies women's magazines. Duffy's research, based on in-depth interviews with magazine producers, trade press reports, and firsthand observation, offers a critical recalibration an industry attempting to redefine itself in the face technological evolution.the opening chapters, Duffy provides a flyover view central topics within the field magazine studies: audience research, industry studies, and the examination circuits production and consumption. Using concise, readable prose, she introduces key media theorists (Henry Jenkins, Raymond Williams) as well as a range scholars whose work has shaped the field women's magazine research (Ien Ang, Betty Frie dan, Joke Hermes, Angela McRobbie), before delving into the history the industry. Readers learn the early days magazine production and how it was that women came to hold positions as both creators and consumers these popular texts, which were understood to be and of women. Duffy describes an era in which magazines were tangible, recognizable, and purchasable.Much has changed. While the digital revolution the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries gave rise to new resources, such as desktop publishing and digital imaging platforms, it also spawned an array virtual competitors who could work quickly and cheaply, forcing publishing houses to adapt. When the 2008 recession hit, worries mounted that a financially strapped readership would not spare what little disposable income it had for magazines when similar content could be found free online. Indeed, many titles folded. Those that persevered adopted a two-fold response, celebrating the importance and uniqueness the magazine itself while repositioning the magazine as a cross-platform brand (41).Today, Duffy argues, many titles envision their product not only, or even primarily, as a printed entity but as a brand. Publishers are scrambling to insert those brands into audiences' lives by aligning themselves with fashion companies and pop-up shops, iPhone apps, and blogs. This multi-platform approach has, Duffy writes, transformed circuits magazine production and consumption. …

Life Cycle Assessment of a Magazine, Part I: Tablet Edition in Emerging and Mature States

SummaryInformation and communication technology (ICT) is providing new ways to access media content. ICT has environmental benefits and burdens. The overall goal of the present study was to assess the environmental impacts of production and consumption of magazines read on tablets from a life cycle perspective. Important goals were to identify the activities giving rise to the main impacts and the key factors influencing the overall environmental impacts. Data gaps and uncertainties were also addressed. The results are compared against those for the print edition of the magazine in a separate article (part 2). The methodology used in the study was life cycle assessment. The environmental impacts assessed included climate change, cumulative energy/exergy demand, metal depletion, photochemical oxidant formation, particulate matter formation, terrestrial acidification, freshwater/marine eutrophication, fossil depletion, human toxicity, and ecotoxicity. The results indicate that content production can be the major contributor to environmental impacts if readers are few (as for the emerging version of the magazine studied). Assuming more readers (more mature version) or a larger file size for the tablet magazine, electronic storage and distribution may be the major contributor. Thus, in contrast to previous studies on electronic media, which reported a dominant impact of the use phase, this study found a higher impact for content production (emerging version) and electronic storage and distribution (mature version). However, with inefficient, low overall use of the tablet with a mature version of the tablet magazine, the greatest impact was shown to come from the reading activity (i.e., the use phase). In conclusion, the relative impacts of the tablet magazine would decrease considerably with high numbers of readers, their efficient use of the tablet (i.e., for many purposes over a long life of the device), and a smaller magazine file.

Revolutions from Grub Street: a history of magazine publishing in Britain

This book provides a study of magazine publishing in Britain from the perspective of the entrepreneurs and commercial enterprises that created its history. Convulsed by social, political, and technological revolutions, the industry has proved both adaptable and resilient. Using a range of source materials, the study traces magazine production from the earliest examples of individuals seeking to earn their living as Grub Street hacks, hawking popular reading matter around eighteenth century London, through to the global multi-media conglomerates that produce and distribute a vast range of modern consumer titles, utilising digital age technologies. This 300-year study in business history seeks to explain why the economic activity of magazine publishing has assumed such a diverse range of organizational forms over time. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the changing technologies of publishing enterprises, and the working practices which they have engendered. The role of Britain’s powerful printing trade unions is thus afforded detailed attention. Our study shows how, during the nineteenth century, the rise of mass-circulation consumer magazines and related systems of mass production eventually led to a period of extreme firm concentration. By the 1960s the vast enterprise of IPC had emerged as the dominant producer of consumer magazines in Britain, prompting political concerns over the issue of press monopoly. However, from the mid-1980s the twin impacts of globalization and digital technologies began to transform the industry, sparking the challenge of a new generation of customer-driven magazine publishing enterprises benefitting from desktop publishing systems and the ICT revolution.

Matching Supply and Demand: Delayed Two-Phase Distribution at Yedioth Group—Models, Algorithms, and Information Technology

This paper details collaboration between the distribution organization within the Yedioth Group, the largest media group in Israel, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This collaboration has led to fundamental changes in how Yedioth distributes print magazines and newspapers. In our work, we developed and implemented decision support tools that are based on new models and algorithms, which were enabled through an electronic data interchange system, and in the future will be enabled with a specialized radio-frequency identification technological solution. The underlying concept is to use real-time information about the sales at the retail outlets to enable pooling of inventory in the network. In particular, we leverage this information to implement an additional redistribution period during the week, delaying the distribution of some magazines until after we receive partial sales data. We model the system as a two-stage stochastic optimization problem. Moreover, we show that the resulting cost is jointly convex in the decision variables. This approach gives rise to a multidimensional dynamic program. By formulating the second-stage subproblem as a linear program, we develop an innovative stochastic gradient-based optimization algorithm that finds the optimal solution in a matter of seconds. The changes resulting from this collaboration generated substantial cost savings at Yedioth—from both a reduction in magazine production levels and a reduction in the return levels. These savings were achieved while maintaining the same sales levels.

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In the smart media environment, magazine industry has been experiencing a transition to ecosystem of value network, which includes high complexity and ambiguity. Using case study method, this article conducts research on digital convergence, the model of magazine ecosystem and adaptation strategy of global magazine companies. Research findings have it that the way of contents production of global magazines has been based on collaborative production system within communities, expert communities, creative users, media contents companies and magazine platform. The system shows different patterns and characteristics depending on magazine-driven platform, Platform-driven platform or user-driven platform. Collaboration system has been confirmed in various cases: Huffington Post and Zinio which collaborate with media contents companies, Amazon magazines and Bookish with magazine companies, Huffington Post and Wired with expert communities, and Flipboard with creative users and communities. Foreign magazine contents diverge into (paper, electronic, app and web magazine) as they start the lively trades of their contents on the magazine platform. In the area of contents uses, readers employ smart media technology effectively such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and module individualization, making it possible for the virtuous cycle to remain in the relationship within communities, expert communities and creative users.

Finding the Five R's in Exemplary Agricultural Publication Capstone Courses

This study sought to characterize three exemplary agricultural communications magazine capstone courses at three different universities. The purpose of the research was to describe the characteristics leading to the courses’ success. Following a qualitative research approach, the investigator conducted personal interviews with students and instructors in each course, made field observations, and examined syllabi. The interviews were crafted after Andreasen’s (2004) Five R’s model for quality capstone courses. Important characteristics of the three exemplary magazine capstone courses included (1) student responsibility for the entire magazine production process, (2) high-quality standards that were comparable to those expected in industry, (3) interaction with professionals in the publication and printing industry, and (4) the revisiting of previously fragmented knowledge through refresher lessons. Further, because capstone courses often serve as a rigorous “rite of passage” for agricultural communications students as they transition to their professional careers, students need positive reinforcement to make it through key moments in the course. These moments of positive reinforcement helped students gain conf idence in their skills as professionals. The researchers concluded that providing students with a real-world experience and positive reinforcement was essential to the success of these courses. Students felt expectations for deadlines, quality of work, and attendance was similar to what they would expect in the workforce. In turn, they thought this would help them prepare to enter into their careers. Recommendations for practice include integrating these characteristics into new and existing magazine capstone courses. In addition to these practical recommendations, the results also lead to the recommendation of modifications to Andreasen’s (2004) Five R’s model with changes focusing on noise and feedback.

Calligraphy, Changes, Autonomy

CALLIGRAPHY, CHANGES, AUTONOMY ROBERT MORRIS OMPOSERS IN MY GENERATION don’t often publicly reflect on how much the American composer’s world has changed over the last fifty years.1 Most of the ones I know simply cope and adjust, taking things as they come, rather than stopping to think about how different their daily work was back in the 1960s. Nonetheless, the difference between then and now is stark.2 To explain this difference in detail would take a century of pages, so I’ll follow just one thread that has affected music composition in ways rarely acknowledged by composers in their writings or informal public statements: copying music. This mundane activity, and changes in its practice over the past fifty years, resonates and interconnects with many other presumably more important developments through which I and other composers have lived. When I entered the Eastman School of Music in 1960 as a fledging composition major, I began to learn what it meant to be a “professional ” composer at that time. The curriculum included a special C Calligraphy, Changes, Autonomy 285 course for composers called “Music Calligraphy,” taught by a local music copyist named Litchfield Toland, using the textbook Preparing Music Manuscript by Anthony Donato. The course was designed to introduce composers to music copying using the most current method of the time: a stub pen dipped in jet-black India ink (no other type of ink could be used) on semi-transparent music paper. Using a ruler, we learned to write clefs, notes, rests, bar lines, and words. This was not easy, since the ink could smear (a special problem for a lefthander like me), and the angle of the pen had to be precisely managed to produce different thicknesses of lines; learning to copy even a simple treble clef was a vexing experience.3 Another aspect of the course involved the “correct” ways to lay out score pages and the use of engraver rules to order the position of accidentals, chords, dynamics, and other signs. The paper, which had to be vellum or onionskin (the terms were used interchangeably), was printed on one side with staves; one copied on the other side. If the paper was not uniformly smooth or greasy, one applied fuller’s earth powder to the page. Guidelines for layout could be written in blue pencil, which was transparent in the reproductive process. Corrections could be made with an ink eraser (preferably electric), or by cutting out an offending sign or measure from a page and replacing it with a patch using transparent tape. Example 1 shows two measures from my composition Out and Out (1989) for clarinet and piano, as originally copied in ink on vellum. Once a score had been prepared, the individual pages were then subjected to a blueprint process (which imparted a faint smell of ammonia to the pages) and the copies bound with plastic combs. There were no other methods, since other means of reproduction such as “dittomasters” were too crude, slow, and involved noxious chemicals ; and xerography was still in its infancy.4 No one liked this way of copying music, and several attempts were made to invent music typewriters, one of which was used by some music publishers. Printed scores were only available from publishers who employed professional music engravers to produce the plates for printing. From before 1950 to about 1975, there were many music publishers that printed and distributed contemporary music. They engaged music copyeditors, who would proof scores for errors and infelicities. The publishing houses advertised their products in magazines and via regular mailings to performing groups. They also looked for performance and commission opportunities for their composers, set up live and radio interviews, and arranged for newspaper previews and reviews. Some even published journals promoting classical and modern music. An engraved score was therefore a mark of prestige: having a publisher made you a professional.5 286 Perspectives of New Music EXAMPLE 1: MEASURE 50–51 FROM MORRIS , OUT AND OUT (1989) FOR CLARINET AND PIANO , AS ORIGINALLY COPIED IN INK ON VELLUM Calligraphy, Changes, Autonomy 287 In any event, the copying process took some time to learn and it was never a joy...

Proposing Fashion: The Discourse of Glossy Magazines

This essay discusses the production and discourse of fashion magazines, or glossies, which are an integral part of the ‘fashion system’. As intermediaries between producers and consuming public, the glossies’ main purpose is to propose: to make proposals about what in particular makes the latest clothes ‘fashion’; about what the latest trends are likely to be; about the importance of the names behind them; about reasons why fashion should be important in readers’ lives; and about where the clothes themselves may be purchased. Such proposals legitimize fashion and the fashion world in cultural — and commercial — terms.The glossies make meaningful connections between things that seem to be essentially independent; they give them social lives by creating an imaginary world about them; and they provide historical and aesthetic order in a world whose products, by their very seasonality and potentially chaotic quantity, are likely to go unnoticed. Fashion magazines represent the fashions shown in the catwalk collections. In so doing, they create ‘a discourse of fashion’ whose key evaluative terms are used by different people across time and space to mark out and contest semantic territory in which local cultural preferences engage with globalizing norms of fashion taste.

A Novel View of Periodicals in Early America

A Novel View of Periodicals in Early America Robb K. Haberman (bio) Jared Gardner. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. xi + 203 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $50.00. Jared Gardner’s The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture joins a growing body of recent scholarship that foregrounds the magazine’s participation in national and transatlantic conversations about literature, politics, and economy. Expanding on the bibliographic foundations provided by Frank L. Mott’s A History of American Magazines 1741–1850 (1930) and Lyon N. Richardson’s A History of Early American Magazines, 1741–1789 (1931), scholars in the past decade have raised new questions about the organization and operation of a public sphere, print, and American identity, and the performative nature of early American communications. For example, Patricia Okker’s Social Stories: The Magazine Novel in Nineteenth-Century America (2003) investigates the relationship between the production and reading of serial fiction within periodicals and the creation of multiple publics in the new nation. Mark L. Kamrath and Sharon M. Harris’ edited collection Periodical Literature in Eighteenth-Century America (2005) illustrates that the diversity of magazine content helped establish this medium as an ideal platform for political debate, social dialogue, and intellectual exchange. Catherine O’Donnell Kaplan’s Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship (2008) traces the efforts of Federalist magazine editors and authors to refine the American character through a steady offering of wit, sensibility, and learning. As typified by three of the current authors named above (Okker, Kamrath, and Harris), literary scholars working in the United States have produced the lion’s share of current research on early American magazines. This topic has nonetheless proven to have wide appeal, as those working in economics, sociology, communications, and cultural studies, as well as history, have put their distinctive stamps on magazine scholarship by adopting different methodologies and interpretive schema. Two essays within the past decade, for instance, have used economic and sociological models to analyze success and failure in magazine proprietorship through the Civil War.1 The era’s magazine publications have also attracted increasing attention from academics outside [End Page 633] the United States. The scope of international contribution is evidenced by the University of Nottingham’s Knowledge Networks: Nineteenth Century American Periodicals, Print Cultures, and Communities, a year-long research project that included an interdisciplinary symposium held in May 2011, and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz’s sponsorship of Life Writing in Early American Periodicals, 1790–1830, a recently completed research project that mapped out the centrality of biographical texts for magazine production in the decades following American independence. Broader technological developments and intellectual currents further explain the resurgent interest in early American magazines, not least of which is the emergence of periodical studies as both an independent field and a subfield of the history of the book. The formation of such interdisciplinary institutions as the Research Society for American Periodicals and its attendant 1991 publication, American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Biography, points to the growing awareness that magazines (and newspapers) constitute “autonomous objects of study” within the humanities and social sciences.2 The creation of online archival databases has further facilitated the professionalization of periodical studies by providing digitized access to hundreds of magazine titles. The prodigious search and indexing capabilities of ProQuest American Periodical Series Online and EBSCO American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection has especially benefited early American scholarship by expanding analytical enquiry and fostering innovative research methods. Moreover, the advent of social media technologies and the participatory nature of platforms such as wikis (collaboratively edited websites) and blogs have spurred a reassessment of the processes by which magazines and other publications helped people form communities by facilitating the assemblage and sharing of ideas and information. Scholars have paid particular attention to the ways that print media operated within a broader communications network in early America, and they have also emphasized that the magazines of this era are best understood as collaborations realized through the integrated labors of readers, editors, and authors. Gardner has produced a nuanced and sophisticated work that both reflects on...

Digital Media Innovation and the Apple iPad: Three Perspectives on the Future of Computer Tablets and News Delivery

Today, the combination of news information on the Internet coupled with the ease and access of posting news information and blog commentary has fundamentally challenged the economic business model for newspaper and magazine production on a worldwide basis. This paper will look at the state of the newspaper industry and will consider the role of the Internet (and digital media) as both a major cause of the problems now faced by today’s newspaper industry as well as its potential solution. Special attention is given to the design and development of the Apple iPad. A major argument of this paper is that computer tablets like the Apple iPad present a unique and historic opportunity to reconsider the meaning and purpose of news delivery. This juncture represents what former Intel CEO. Andy Grove refers to as a strategic inflection point; a time when a triggering event in the competitive marketplace requires new solutions or face the prospect of business extinction.

Технологічні властивості сучасних клеїв для незшивного клейового скріплення

Analysis of the book publishing industry development show that, despite the proliferation of electronic information technology, print media remains one of the major media. In modern technologies, production of books and magazines there is an intensive to produce much of publications about glue binding, which is typical for the world and Ukrainian book publishing. This allows you to produce books and magazines with higher productivity, regardless of size and format, a simplified design, apply for its comprehensive treatment of universal or automated production lines with fast changeover equipment.However, books and magazines, which made way glue binding on domestic enterprises, sometimes has a low operating rates, lack of strength and durability that can explain the lack of systematic and evidence-based approach to process control, non technological and operational properties of adhesives with the materials used. Therefore, the survey of properties of adhesive compositions, technology of glue binding, on which you can improve methods of normalization processes of binding the book block spine, improve of glue binding.

Cohesion, Adhesion and Incoherence: Magazine Production with a Flickr Special Interest Group

Cohesion, Adhesion and Incoherence: Magazine Production with a Flickr Special Interest Group