Living books : experiments in the posthumanities /

Adema (digital media, Coventry Univ., UK) addresses the future of scholarly publishing by tracing the intersection of publishing and academia. Her focus is not a criticism of the cultural methods that created the academic monograph but a reimagined exploration of the monograph in relation to the advances in research currently being explored in digital scholarship. The book serves as a field guide to multiple issues emerging in academic publishing, including the evolving relationship of data to text, questions of authorship, open access publishing, the future of the monograph, experimenting and remixing, digital humanities, inclusion and diversity, and archives. Adema's efforts to address budding issues in scholarly publishing and her book's central thesis that academic works need to be responsive and fluid to other research--what Adema calls the "living book"--make this a welcome exploration of the current landscape. Highly recommended for institutions with academic programs in media studies, digital humanities, and library science. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and researchers. --John Rodzvilla, Emerson College