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A Shipping Container Isn't a Library Book
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By Derek Attig on Aug 30th, 2011
  1. HASTAC Scholars
  2. International & Global
  3. Government & Politics
  4. Community & Policy
  5. Culture
  1. book
  2. corporations
  3. HASATC Scholar
  4. military
  5. print

USA Today reports that the Pentagon has paid $720 million in late fees for rented shipping containers since 2001. Seven-hundred-and-twenty million...
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Information Materialism: Scholastic Book Orders and the Impulse to Buy
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By Derek Attig on Aug 7th, 2011
  1. Arts & Humanities
  2. HASTAC Scholars
  3. K-12 Learning
  4. Reading & Writing
  5. Youth
  6. Culture
  1. book retail
  2. capitalism
  3. consumerism
  4. print

 

 

Hillary Buckholtz, over at Urlesque, has posted a bunch of images of book order forms from Scholastic and...
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Blood from a Turnip; or, HarperCollins vs. Public Libraries
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By Derek Attig on Mar 4th, 2011
  1. Reading & Writing
  2. Community & Policy
  1. capitalism
  2. Commercial Publishing
  3. e-books
  4. print

Dumb, but also deeply disturbing: HarperCollins has found a new way to try and squeeze blood from a turnip (or money from chronically underfunded...
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Books, Radioactive Spiders, and Knowledge as a Superpower
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By Derek Attig on Mar 1st, 2011
  1. Gender & Sexuality
  2. Information Science & Archiving
  1. gender
  2. libraries
  3. print

I know a lot of HASTAC scholars and other bloggers here have a personal or academic affinity for comic books, so I wanted to post this...
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Surface is Profound: Notes on Comic Book Matter(s)
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By Ernesto Priego on Nov 23rd, 2010
  1. Photography, Illustration & Images
  2. Digital Media & Learning
  3. Reading & Writing
  1. book retail
  2. Comic Books
  3. comics
  4. content
  5. digital
  6. digital media
  7. eBooks
  8. form
  9. format
  10. history of the book
  11. kindle
  12. materiality
  13. matter
  14. mobile comics
  15. mobile media
  16. paperbacks
  17. print
  18. publication
  19. sociology of texts

 
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Just Seeds-Art, Activism, and Functional Group Blogging
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By Bonnie Fortune on Nov 18th, 2009
  1. Advocacy
  2. Arts & Humanities
  3. Collaboration
  4. Government & Politics
  5. Open Source, Open Access & Open Web
  6. Legal, Licensing & Copyright
  7. Institutions & Organizations
  8. Social Networks & Social Media
  1. activism
  2. art
  3. blog
  4. collaboration
  5. groups
  6. intellectual property
  7. network
  8. new media
  9. open source
  10. political graphics
  11. politics
  12. print
  13. UIUC

The past year on the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign campus has been full of art activist projects. As an MFA...
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