In our first session of Libraries and Publishing in an Information Society last Friday I hoped to encourage some collective brainstorming around the meaning and evolution of “publishing” by considering some examples from rock and roll as a particular form of disruptive innovation.

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![From "Mystery of the Million-Dollar Briefcase", author and source unknown, United States, 1960s. Panels 5-6. Via Nick Page (16 February 2011). ](https://epriego.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/screen-shot-2014-01-30-at-21-33-45.png?w=332&h=224 “From “Mystery of the Million-Dollar Briefcase”, author and source unknown, United States, 1960s.

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[Originally published on January 16 2014 on my Remote Participation blog at MLA Commons, here: http://remoteparticipation.commons.mla.org/2014/01/16/mla14-a-first-look/] Twitter Research and Academic Conferences The 2014 MLA (Modern Language Association) Annual Convention, was held in Chicago from 9 to 12 January 2014. You can still browse or search 2014 sessions in the online Program.

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W e’ve been conducting a quick (really!) survey on using Twitter for engagement with research. If you have already responded, thank you. Thank you as well if you have shared it on Twitter. We are interested in learning more about the ways in which Twitter users engage with academic research. This quick survey contains 15 simple questions and should be pretty quick and straight-forward to complete.

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