Book 2.0Scholars Turn Monographs Into Digital Conversations

From the The Chronicle of Higher Education's Information Technology section, Volume 52, Issue 47, Page A20, by Jeffrey R. Young

Mr. Wark, a professor of media and cultural studies at New School University, has put the draft of his latest book online in an experimental format inspired by academic blogs and the free-for-all spirit of Wikipedia .... Each paragraph of Mr. Wark's book has its own Web page, and next to each of those paragraphs is a box where anyone can comment — though readers are not permitted to alter the original text. ... More