Category: Ebooks
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New Books Network Podcast about Living Books
The wonderful Sarah Kearns, who has also been incredibly helpful in getting Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021) up on PubPub (opening the book up for annotations and comments), has conducted a podcast interview with me for the New Books Network about Living Books. You can listen to the interview here and…
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Textshop Experiments Living Books Book Talk
I am so glad to have been invited by the amazing Kevin Wisniewski (@projectorperiod) to do a book talk as part of the Textshop Experiments Book Talks! Textshop Experiments is a scholarly open access journal dedicated to fostering experimental works and to exploring electracy, rhetoric, media, and culture in the digital age. Kevin also runs…
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New COPIM Report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books
Two weeks ago we released a new COPIM research report: Promoting and Nurturing Interactions with Open Access Books: Strategies for Publishers and Authors. The report has been written by Samuel Moore, Tobias Steiner, and myself. This three-part research and scoping report has been created as a (evolving) resource for the scholarly community, especially for publishers…
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New Report: “Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing”
Books Contain Multitudes: Exploring Experimental Publishing is a three-part research and scoping report which serves as a resource for the scholarly community, especially for authors and publishers interested in pursuing more experimental forms of book publishing. The first two parts of this report situate experimental books in the context of academic research and publishing, and…
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ScholarLed/ROAC Virtual Book Stand
Available at: http://radicaloa.disruptivemedia.org.uk/latest-publications/ Formed in 2015, the Radical Open Access Collective (https://radicaloa.co.uk/) is an international community of scholar-led, not-for-profit presses, journals and other open access projects. Now consisting of more than 60 members, we promote a progressive vision for open publishing in the humanities and social sciences. Formed in 2018 ScholarLed (https://scholarled.org/) is a consortium of…
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Paper Struggles & Public Library and the Property Form
An exhibition and seminar at: Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, Spitalfields, London, E1 7LS Exhibition, ‘Paper Struggles’, opening: Monday, 9 December, 18.30-21.00 Continues: Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 December, 11.00-21.00 Seminar, ‘Public Library and the Property Form’: Tuesday 10 December, 10.30-13.30 Guest speakers: Balász Bodó & Nanna Bonde Thylstrup Seminar registration: http://tiny.cc/public_library ‘Paper Struggles’ This exhibition documents how struggles over…
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Experimental Publishing II – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation
A half-day symposium with talks by Mark Amerika (UC Boulder) and Nick Thurston (University of Leeds) 2:15-5:30pm May 28 Centre for Postdigital Cultures Teaching Room 3rd Floor Lanchester Library Coventry University Registration (free): https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/experimental-publishing-ii2/ In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over…
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Emergent Creativity
I have a new chapter out on ‘The Ethics of Emergent Creativity: Can We Move Beyond Writing as Human Enterprise, Commodity and Innovation?’ in the collection Whose Book is it Anyway? A View From Elsewhere on Publishing, Copyright and Creativity edited by Janis Jefferies and Sarah Kember. This volume has been published in open access…
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Experimental Publishing Symposia
Experimental Publishing – Critique, Intervention, And Speculation In 2019 and 2020, the Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) will be hosting a series of symposia exploring contemporary approaches to experimental publishing. Over the course of the series, we will ask questions about the role and nature of experimentation in publishing, about ways in which experimental publishing has been formulated…
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The Rise of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK
Reblog from the Jisc Library & scholarly futures blog blog post by Janneke Adema (Coventry University), Graham Stone (Jisc) and Chris Keene (Jisc) Our new report: Changing publishing ecologies: A landscape study of new university presses and academic-led publishing maps the rise of new university presses and academic-led presses in the UK The landscape of academic publishing has seen…
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Academia.edu and Self-Branding
Last week I was invited to give a talk at UCSB Library. Underneath you can find a transcript of my talk and a selection of my slides. Academia.edu & Self-Branding: The Metricisation of Scholars and Scholarly Networks Today I will be discussing two topics which are directly related: the growing use by academics of commercial…
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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…