New Book on Personal Publishing and the Public Sphere
October 14, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
By the wayside, I’m pleased to announce that my (German) book in the field of communication and media studies, Persönliches Publizieren im Web 2.0, has just been published by vwh – Fachverlag für Medientechnik und -wirtschaft, a small publishing house for academic literature in the area of media technology and media management. The book examines the relation between personal web publishing and the public sphere while also exploring the derogatory attitude towards personal publishing so prevalent in German media. You can find it on Amazon or order it directly (postage free) from my publisher, vwh-Verlag. The front matter and preface are also available for download here (in German), as is an English-language abstract.
September Recap
September 25, 2008 by Jenna Brinning
It’s been an insanely hectic month here. My order books were overfilled, which was great. But in my “free” time I have also been working on the final edits of a book of mine, which will be coming out very soon. Add a bilingual website relaunch project to all that (which, I admit, was neglected most of the month), and the stress curve can get very high indeed. Essentially, I have been working 18-hour long days for the past four weeks, something that 9-to-5 employees can hardly imagine.
Things are starting to come together now though. We’re going to get the German version of the website out of the sandbox within a week and then I’ll start porting the English content. The clients are all happy, everybody has been attended to on time as always. October’s order books are already full and, of course, I’m looking forward to the galley proofs from my publisher…
