Category: Open Access
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Call for Creative Works and Papers – The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice
Although media practice as a field and community embraces a plurality of media, the materiality of its scholarly forms of production and communication remain predominantly text-based. How then, can a journal of media practice (JMP) extend from a speculative focus on what media practice as research could be, to an exploration of the alternative forms of…
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Post-Digital Living Bookshelves
The book has always been studied within a wide variety of fields, from (book) history, bibliography and literature, to library and information science, publishing, and media studies. However, the latter—media studies—has been quite slow in its uptake of the book as an object of study, where as a field it has predominantly focused on audio-visual…
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Culture Machine Liquid Books, Volume 9: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files
Image Credit: CC-BY: Linda N. from Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/22748341@N00/361025310/ We are pleased to announce Volume 9 in the Culture Machine Liquid Book Series, published by Open Humanities Press: Really, We’re Helping To Build This . . . Business: The Academia.edu Files. This book can be accessed here: http://liquidbooks.pbworks.com/w/page/106236504/The%20Academia_edu%20Files Really, We’re Helping To Build This . .…
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Don’t Give Your Labour To Academia.edu, Use It To Strengthen The Academic Commons
At the end of last year Times Higher Education invited me to provide an opinion piece on academic social networking sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate, and to reflect on the ‘Why are we not boycotting Academia.edu?‘ event the Centre for Disruptive Media organised last December, featuring Pascal Aventurier, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, David Parry and…
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New Media Gatekeepers: Ecosystems of Access and Denial
Coventry University School of Media and Performing Arts Ellen Terry Building – ETG101 April 22nd – 12:30-16:00 17:00: Book Launch and Wine Reception Organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media: http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Free Symposium. Please Register at: www.newmediagatekeepers. disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Speakers: Margie Borschke (Macquarie University) – Music (via Skype) James Newman…
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Videos ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu’ Symposium Now Online
In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu’s introduction of an ‘article recommendation charge’, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu hashtag, we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’ Chaired…
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Radical Open Access Conference – Videos Online
In June of last year the Radical Open Access Conference (http://radicalopenaccess.disruptivemedia.org.uk/) took place at Coventry University, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media (disruptivemedia.org.uk) The videos of the various panels are now available underneath and on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/@disruptive_media The conference gathered together a large community of presses, projects and thinkers exploring some of the more…
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In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
:::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. “It is of some…
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Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?
With: Janneke Adema – Chair (Coventry University, UK) Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France) Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US) Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK) David Parry (Saint Joseph’s University, US) Registration: http://why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu.eventbrite.co.uk Organised by The Centre for Disruptive Media: www.disruptivemedia.org.uk Schedule: 3:00-3:30: Registration tea/coffee 3:30-3:40: Introduction (Janneke Adema) 3:40-4:00: Pascal Aventurier…
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The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive (II)
Last month, together with Silvia Stoyanova, I delivered a lecture at the “Methodological Intersections”: Trier Digital Humanities Autumn School 2015 (which Silvia co-organised) on the topic of ‘The Multidimensional Scholarly Archive’. Silvia’s part of the lecture has been posted here, underneath you can find my contribution. I would like to focus on some of the…
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Bookfuturism: Visions of the Future Book
Underneath a transcript of the talk I gave at the Norlit 2015: The Book to Come conference, which took place August 20-22 at Goteborg University. In it I outline the contours for a new research project on ‘visions of the future book’. The PP accompanying this talk can be accessed here. I want to share…
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Radical Open Access and The Politics of Publishing. A Genealogy of Affinities and Correlations
A bit belated (I will be uploading some talks I gave during the last months in the next few days), underneath the paper I gave at the Radical Open Access conference, which we hosted at Coventry University 15-16th of June. The videos from this event will be available soon, and I will announce them here…