Category: Information and knowledge
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Materialities of Text
New Formations recently published a very exciting new issue, edited by Sas Mays and Nicholas Thoburn on ‘Materialities of Text: Between the Codex and the Net’. Gary Hall and I contributed an article on the political nature of the book, in which we make a comparison between the political nature of artists’ books and open…
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#OAbooks in the HSS: Contexts, Conversations, Technologies and Communities of Practice
Last week I attended the first major conference entirely dedicated to Open Access books in the HSS, in the British Library, organised by OAPEN and JISC. The two-day conference had a fantastic line-up of keynote speakers, established and new experimental projects in open access book publishing, and practical strands on funding, publishing for scholars and…
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Forget the Book
Yesterday I attended the excellent event Forget the Book: Writing in the Age of Digital Publishing, at Goldsmiths, University of London. The event was organised by Sarah Kember and Benjamin Pester as part of the CREATe consortium work package ‘Whose Book is it Anyway’. It featured Sean Cubitt (Goldsmiths) in discussion with Doug Sery (MIT…
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Robert Darnton – Blogging: Now and Then (250 years ago)
Things have been quiet here for quite a while now but I am hoping to upload a selection of new posts/writings in the next months, both new draft bits of my dissertation and some other writings on books and Open Access. For now I wanted to share my notes on a master class with book…
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Open Media Research Seminars – Series 6
Tuesday the 12th of February Ruth Catlow (Furtherfield) will give the first talk in the sixth series of Research Seminars at Coventry University on ‘Open Media’. The seminar series is accompanied by a blog that provides more information about the speakers, the theme and the seminars. You can find it here. Underneath the full program…
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Culture Machine Live
Culture Machine Live is a podcast series dedicated to discussions of culture and theory. As one of the editors of this series (alongside Clare Birchall, Gary Hall & Pete Woodbridge) I have been conducting interviews with media and cultural theorists. Culture Machine Live is an extension of the online, open access journal of culture, theory and…
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Open Media Research Seminars – Series 5
Tuesday the 23rd of October Nathaniel Tkacz will give the first talk in the fifth series of Research Seminars at Coventry University on ‘Open Media’. The seminar series is accompanied by a blog that provides more information about the speakers, the theme and the seminars. You can find it here. Underneath the full program for…
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Why experiment? A critical analysis of the values behind digital scholarly publishing
Last month I presented a paper entitled ‘Why Experiment? A Critical Analysis of the Values Behind Digital Scholarly Publishing’ at the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Paris, France, July 4th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO. This presentation was part of the panel: ‘Publishing Cultural Studies, Now and in the Future’, with excellent papers…
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Review New Media & Society
I wrote a review for New Media & Society of John Carey and Martin Elton’s, When Media Are New: Understanding the Dynamics of New Media Adoption and Use (The University of Michigan Press and The University of Michigan Library 2010), published as part of the University of Michigan Press and Library’s excellent Digital Culture Books…
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DOAB Discussion on Open Access Books
For more than a week now I have been moderating a wonderful discussion on Open Access books as part of wider user needs research for the DOAB (The Directory of Open Access Books). DOAB is a discovery service for Open Access monographs which provides a searchable index to peer-reviewed monographs and edited volumes published under…
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Open Media Research Seminars – Series 4
Tuesday 31st of January Tessa J. Houghton will give the first talk in the fourth series of Research Seminars at Coventry University on ‘Open Media’. The seminar series is accompanied by a blog that provides more information about the speakers, the theme and the seminars. You can find it here. Underneath the full program for…