The Content Machine :Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Towards a Theory of Publishing from the Printing Press to the Digital Network

Publication series :1

Author: Bhaskar   Michael  

Publisher: Anthem Press‎

Publication year: 2013

E-ISBN: 9780857281210

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780857281111

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780857281111

Subject: G230 The publication of the theory.

Keyword: 信息与知识传播,语言学

Language: ENG

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Description

‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has no future in the digital age.

Chapter

The Argument

A Theory of Publishing?

Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM OF PUBLISHING

What’s the Problem?

The Word Itself

Instances from History

Publishing Media

What Publishing Is Not

Why We Need a Theory of Publishing

Chapter 2 THE DIGITAL CONTEXT AND CHALLENGE

The Origins of Digital Publishing

Changing Content

Network Effects

Centralisation

Fragmentation

The Digital Challenge

Disintermediation

Copyright

Taking up the Challenge?

Chapter 3 HOW CONTENT WORKS

From Containers to Frames

From Motivations to Models

A Rounded View of Content

Chapter 4 THE SYSTEM OF PUBLISHING

Publishing Theory and the Communications Circuit

Filtering

Amplification I

Amplification II

Amplification III

The System of Publishing

Chapter 5 MODELS

Background

For Profit?

Not for Profit?

Four Encyclopaedias: Four Composite Models

Risk, Rationality, Diversity

Chapter 6 ADDRESSING PROBLEMS, MEETING CHALLENGES

Meeting the Challenge

Market Making

‘Open’ Revisited

Forging the New Publisher

Self-Definition

Coda

Conclusion INSIDE THE CONTENT MACHINE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Online Material

INDEX

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