Kathi Inman Berens
@kathiiberens
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Future of books, stories, platforms, games, VR, AR. Fulbright Scholar. Assoc. Prof. Portland State:Book Publishing & Digital Humanities. Rowing, bikes, beaches.
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Joined September 2010
“Now is the time when we can make counternarratives. It’s important for us to give more tools to empower creative makers,” beyond corporate owned platforms, says @lucidbard #MLA23.
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“There is no utopia in Silicon Valley platforms, even if resistant work can be made in the storyscapes there,” says @AnaSalter #MLA23.
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TODAY, 3:30: Humanities+: Career-Minded Approaches to Humanities Teaching and Research. 3 approaches: genetic encoding & film studies by .@Cheeryble2; Applied Humanities major (A-P Durand); my Building a Humanities-focused Creative Industries Program. chair @jasonrhody. #MLA23
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RT @jasonrhody: There are a number of discussion groups (in person and virtual) on Friday and Saturday in the #MLA23 Professional Developme….
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RT @NaghmehRezaie: Join our panel on Adaptation and the Metaverse, Friday 10:15 AM #MLA23 .if you are interested in a critical approach to….
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Shocking lapse from @penguinrandom -- TRUST, named a Top Ten book of the year by @nytimes, is OUT OF STOCK. Hernan Diaz deserves much better treatment. Paperback in mid-January 2023.
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The staff of The New York Times Book Review choose the year’s standout fiction and nonfiction.
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“Surprised by hope.” Josephine Woolington trained her attention on the relationships between animals, plants, humans, place and Native wisdom as she traveled around the PNW immediately after Covid. Read her new @ooliganpress book WHERE WE CALL HOME for sale @powells.
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Public library DEFUNDED because it continues to circulate 5 challenged books about #LGBTQ+ themes. Some residents demanded all books with LGBTQ+ themes be removed: 90 books total -- less than 1/100th of collection. @AlanSInouye @AndrewRichard @CCCPodcastVOC @rachellynchase.
Alarming and dangerous anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has essentially defunded the Patmos Library. This is short sighted and punishes, irreparably, the entire community. Read MLA's statement here on the 2nd failed attempt to pass a 10-year millage in Jamestown MI:
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Highly relevant to #DH folks. Join the DH community talking via Mastodon, Hcommons, and other places.
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Taylor Jenkins Reid talking about CARRIE SOTO IS BACK with @CherylStrayed at #PDXbookfest. Original title: The Bitch Is Back. Publisher nixed it. “You can take a sharpie and write bitch on my copy,” said Strayed.
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Packed house for @jasontanamor’s popup reading & Q&A about LOVE, DANCE & EGGROLLS at @literaryarts Portland Book Festival. Talking about being one of the very few Filipinos in all-white midwestern community. @ooliganpress book available at #pdxbookfest
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Immer reader, a very interesting alternative to ebook readers. Many levels of customization to give readers a more physical sense of what the text looks like in its entirety. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Niels ‘t Hooft, a game designer, invented Lotus, a novella optimized for various dimensions of mobile reading (chunked small, use of color for character POV, etc.) Immer, a test app in the Netherlands, now has 50k users, books from 30 publishers. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Progress in making PDFs more accessible to the 43M people globally who are blind and low vision. Here’s the machine learning/AI automated method of extraction and export to HTML. Panel: Bill McCoy, Lucy Lu Wang, Zoya Zilinskii, Rick, Pamela Berkman. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Adam Hyde discussing speed of Preprint mechanism as a technical service in the academic journal ecosystem to solve the slowness problem: the long delay between completion of the research & its official publication. #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Open review communities will deploy existing publishing infrastructures. Notify in particular (in my, Kathi’s) experience that can promote interconnection between open access repositories & and commercial systems. Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Repositories are key to local universities owning their own research. To own the infrastructure. “We want our cloud to live in Africa.” Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf.
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Librarians are key to sustainable African research networks. Lu sense is strengthening open science in Africa. Regional & continental consortia. Morning keynote by Omo Omaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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Discoverability is a major challenge for African research networks. They are producing more than the 2% of world research credited to them; but accounting for the outputs is hampered by various factors. Morning keynote by Omo Oaiya at #pagebreak #pagebreakconf
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RT @rachellynchase: Authors at @rowhousepub all get $40,000 advance and 40% royalties share @RedPencilPR @PageBreakConf #pagebreakconf.
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