Tag: publishing
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Crowdfunding as Cultural Production: John Dimatos of Kickstarter
Kickstarter is a self-described “cultural institution,” with over 77,000 successfully crowdfunded projects under its belt and 8,000-10,000 projects live on the site at any given moment. Although you may be familiar with the runaway success campaigns that make it to the evening news: Veronica Mars, the Zach Braff movie, Oculus Rift, OUYA, and Pebble; there…
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Borderless Collaboration and the Upheaval of Publishing: Robert Stein at ITP, NYU
Robert Stein is one of the true pioneers of multimedia: computer hybrids of text, video, sound, graphics, and interactivity, which is the face of the Internet as we know it. He spoke to us about the future of publishing, which will be video games–not books. Bob founded The Criterion Collection in 1984, which put the…