finding urgency

Urgency means prolonging the life of a publication beyond short attention spans, challenging your readers to navigate and interact with content in different ways, and entrusting your content to the network.

Important is that it pertains not only to speed but also to relevancy. It refers to both priority and tenacity, and so connects momentousness to determination

Quotes, sources and questions

Hybrid publishing contains both digital and physical qualities of a publication and how they can interconnect.

It can span across multiple mediums, possibly even platforms

“A new media object is not something fixed once and for all but can exist in different, potentially infinite versions.”
(Manovich, 2002, The Language Of New Media. MIT Press.)

“I love the contradiction here, that to better understand crisis, we may need to recognize the slowness of how conditions evolve, how power operates, the patience to build and fortify over time. Committing to maintenance as a form of urgency”
Paul Soulellis, lecture on UrgentCraft

• Who decides what is urgent?
• Can social media be an urgent publishing tool?
• Is the goal of urgent publishing to be sustainable/to be
preserved? Or can it be a conscious decision to make it
only available for a certain time limit?

What forces are at play in our access to information?

> Digital polarisation (through algorithms/echochambers)
Does the internet connect us or divide us?

> Data discrimination

> Authority and power
Who has the authority to decide what we see/what is
urgent/what gets preserved?

> Where does your data get stored? Who has access to this?

>> URGENT PUBLISHING
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Aims to, although retaining its relevance and momentum, reach beyond the now, and be a sustainable practice
Looks for new ways of presenting information to the reader
As a practice, often questions the ‘how?’ of the publishing process
Although: "Urgency for these readers, lies in the why rather than the how of publishing a work."
Aims to create a close-knit relationship with the audience/the reader
Makes use of available tools
Is collaborative
It develops a situated account of hybrid publishing, where authors, editors, publishers, designers, and readers operate together. (from Here and Now? Explorations in Urgent Publishing)
Speed, momentum, relevancy
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Urgency means prolonging the life of a publication beyond short attention spans,
challenging your readers to navigate and interact with content in different ways, and entrusting your content to the network.
Important is that it pertains not only to speed but also to relevancy.
It refers to both priority and tenacity, and so connects momentousness to determination
_________
Not only speed but also relevancy.
Keywords: priority & tanacity
Goes beyond now
not only logicallyt consistant, and well proven arguments
Alternative content structures
No clickbait being used
finding and engaging readers who care
Challenging readers to navigate and interect
Using what's available
important message that needs go be expressed quickly
My own definition of urgent/hybrid publishing

>> HYBRID PUBLISHING
_________
spans across multiple mediums, possibly even platforms.
combination of physical / digital publication and/or analogue/digital creation and production methods
can take different forms.
_________
contains both digital and physical qualities of a publication and how they can interconnect.
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Combing physical and digital qualities to design new ways of reading.

>Where do an online medium and the reader meet? and where can it bring you?

>or what is the connection between reader and medium?
Urgent for whom?

>Is something urgent immediately important and/or relevant?
>Who decides which content is important enough to be "urgent publishing"?

_________
"A leaf a gourd a shell a net a bag a sling a sack a bottle a pot a box a container. A holder. A recipient."

"with or before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home."

"If it is a human thing to do to put something you want, because it's useful, edible, or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket, or a bit of rolled bark or leaf, or a net woven of your own hair, or what have you, and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later on you take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum,"

"I differ with all of this. I would go so far as to say that the natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us."

"within the narrative conceived as carrier bag/belly/box/house/medicine bundle, may be seen as necessary elements of a whole which itself cannot be characterized either as conflict or as harmony, since its purpose is neither resolution nor stasis but continuing process."