Douglas McLennan
Doug is the editor of ArtsJournal
An Initiative To Radically Change The Way Scientific Research Is Shared
It outlines a future “community-based” and “scholar-led” open-research communication system in which publishers are no longer gatekeepers that reject submitted work or determine first...
How Big-Publishing Consolidation Has Changed Fiction-Writing
In the conglomerate era, authors like Stephen King and Danielle Steel are pressured to become advertisements for themselves, even as much of the work...
News Consumption Trends — Mainstream Journalism Down, Opinion Channels Up
In the past 16 months, seven publishers crossed the one million subscriber mark to enter Press Gazette’s ranking for the first time – including...
Theatre’s Crisis Is Really A Demographic Issue
I have been told that staff, tasked to phone up lifelong supporters and subscribers who didn’t renew for the first time, had to be...
Should Theatre’s Performance Time Norm Be 6:30?
Six-thirty may not be a traditional starting time for theatre. But then in the 16th and early 17th-century, before the advent of the indoor...
How Story-Telling In Podcasts Is Different From Radio
The podcast market is increasingly interested only in those that take the listener on a journey from one episode to the next. Without a...
We Live In An Always-On World. What Does It Mean To Withdraw From It?...
Acts of disengagement are routinely met with scepticism, judgment and pushback in public discourse. What if we were to treat them instead as opportunities...
To What Extent Is Misinformation Changing How We Think?
Misinformation is most commonly defined as anything that is factually inaccurate, but not intended to deceive: in other words, people being wrong. However, it...
How Art Schools Are Approaching Artificial Intelligence
“It feels like the birth of photography all over again.” - Artnet
Scientists Believe Neural Networks Have Cracked Critical Essence Of Intelligence
Since the 1980s, a subset of cognitive scientists have argued that neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), aren't viable models of the mind because their architecture...
New Yorker Magazine’s Most-Popular Cartoon Ever Breaks Record For Sale Of A Cartoon
That comic, which has gone on to be the most reprinted in the magazine’s history, proves so enduringly popular that it recently sold at auction for...
Neuro-Study: Why We Communicate Less Well Over Video Conference
The research suggests online faces, with present technology, don’t engage our social neural circuits as effectively. - Neuroscience News
Why AI Doesn’t Understand Slang
Language models, in the most basic sense, represent our 26-letter alphabet in strings of numbers. Those digits might efficiently condense large amounts of information....
A Portland Oregon Theatre Lays Off Staff (Including Its Artistic Director) But Is Still...
It’s certainly arguable that the company overreached in pursuing such an extensive rebuild, rather than limping along in what was left of the old...
Expanding An Orchestra’s Mission To Community
At a time when many classical music and other traditional arts organizations are facing major challenges, a young conductor in Louisville, Kentucky, is expanding...
Biologist Turns Amateur Art Sleuth And Cracks An Art History Puzzle
“I would love it if someone published a paper about one of the three paintings confirming or refuting my findings, so we could start...
Right Wing Journalist Nominated To Lead Venice Biennale
Since coming to power last fall, Italy’s far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and her party the Fratelli d’Italia have been installing right-leaning candidates into leadership positions in...
Fascinating List – Here Are The Most-Banned Books In US Prisons
The list includes Amy Schumer’s memoir The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, flagged by Florida officials for graphic sexual content and for being...
Public Radio Station Sees Huge Ratings Boost With High-Context News
“We've been in a crazy news cycle, people are coming to us for nuance and context, like they've been doing many public...
Tate Modern Reopens Its Controversial Panoramic Viewing Platform
The rooftop viewing gallery was designed to give panoramic views of the city, and it opened in 2016. It quickly became the subject of...
Is Our Definition Of Creativity Too Narrow?
You can show creativity in countless activities, from organising storage space to trimming shrubs to fixing a hole in your wall to training the...
2023 List: America’s Most Arts-Vibrant Cities
Adjusting values on a per capita basis as well as accounting for differences in costs of living enable this analysis to level the playing...
Board Of The Much-Troubled Banff Centre Is Fired
The Province of Alberta has sacked the board and appointed an administrator to oversee and assess. The institution has suffered for years with poor...
This Is What AI Thinks Is Attractive Humans
When an AI image-generation tool—like the ones made by Midjourney, Stability AI, or Adobe—is prompted to create a picture of a person, that person...
Spotify Says It Will De-Monetize Least-Popular Tracks
Presumably, Spotify will frame this as a way to combat fraud and to limit payments to ambient-noise generators, but it could also have a...
