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Books in Browsers 2011

Books in Browsers 2011

Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:00 AM - Friday, October 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA


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Books in Browsers 2011: Beautiful Books

Detailed conference program is now online. 

We consider future books as networked, distributed sets of interactions -- and less containers of circumscribed content.  So the question arises: what does a beautiful book look like?

For our first theme, we expect that future books will present a range of encounters ranging from deeply immersive texts to highly interactive game-like multiple-narrative explorations that blur the boundaries between reader and writer - but what does it mean to design something distributed, yet coherent, that makes people think: "wow, that's a beautiful thing"?

Our second theme follows, which is re-thinking "social reading" from a higher altitude.  If we consider what it means for a reader to interact with either a creative story or a presentation of knowledge, we move far beyond blogs and wikis to the basics of engagement with others and the story itself.  To pose an argument, if there were holodecks among us, what radical vision for an Encyclopedie would Diderot and d'Alembert craft?

Our final theme underpins all our endeavors.  What are the business models of the networked, web-based book? What insights could we gain from gaming, dedicated fan communities, different media cultures, and studies of social organization that suggest how we might invest in creative arts, and support investments in entertainment and educational narratives?

For additional information, including inquiries about attendance, 

please contact peter at archive.org, or twitter: @naypinya.  

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Thursday, October 27, 2011 at 8:00 AM
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Friday, October 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM (PT)

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Information on BiB 2011 Ignite talks is available!

 

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

A more detailed program with timing is now available.  

Friday, July 22, 2011

Abstracts for Books in Browsers are now mostly available on the BiB archive.org site. 

Thursday, July 21, 2011

A small number of hotel rooms are available for guests at the Kabuki Hotel at a special reserved rate.  

Please book quickly, as the reserved block is fairly small.  

Direct Kabuki URL for Attendee Registration 

Thursday, July 21, 2011

A draft schedule has now been posted.  

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