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  • Reblog: Taking back control: the new university and academic presses that are re-envisioning scholarly publishing
    Reblog: Taking back control: the new university and academic presses that are re-envisioning scholarly publishing

    The LSE Impact Blog posted a blogpost written by Graham Stone and myself which I have reblogged underneath. A recent report from Jisc showcases the upward trend in universities and academics setting up their own presses in an environment increasingly dominated by large commercial publishing houses. Following up on the recommendations arising from this report,…

  • An Evening of Empowering Women
    An Evening of Empowering Women

    I am excited to announce that I have been invited to speak at ‘An Evening of Empowering Women’ at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on Friday 13th October 2017. This evening will involve talks from inspiring women and open discussion on the challenges facing women leaders, and will support the participation of 3 early-career researchers, Maddie…

  • The Rise of New University Presses and Academic-Led Presses in the UK
    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…

  • Academia.edu and Self-Branding
    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…

  • Podcasts Galore
    Podcasts Galore

    Podcasts have become an increasingly important media format within an academic context. At first they were predominantly a popular means to record and disseminate lectures, evidenced by the ever popular iTunes U platform, which broadcasts free courses and lectures from top universities. Yet academic events, seminars, and conferences are also increasingly being recorded and disseminated as podcasts.…

  • Posthuman Reading
    Posthuman Reading

    La Maleta de Portbou is a Spanish magazine of Humanities and Economy, edited by the philosopher Josep Ramoneda and published bimonthly in both print and digital format. The magazine is named in memory of Walter Benjamin, who committed suicide in Portbou in 1940 when he fled the Nazi persecution. Benjamin wanted to launch a journal…

  • Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities
    Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities

    I am very pleased to announce the publication of a special issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing: ‘Disrupting the Humanities: Towards Posthumanities’, edited by Gary Hall and myself. This special issue consists of a selection of video-articles by contributors including Mark Amerika, Monika Bakke, Endre Dányi, Johanna Drucker, Lesley Gourlay, Sarah Kember, Silvio Lorusso, Erin Manning,…

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    During our time at the Triangle SCI Institute 2016 in Chapel Hill, our team (consisting of Samuel Moore, Sherri Barnes, Donna Lanclos, Stuart Lawson, Eileen Joy and Janneke Adema) primarily came together with a strong motivation to think through what a not-for-profit and non-platform based alternative to social researching sites such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate…

  • Special Issue: The disrupted Journal of Media Practice – 6 Conversations around Media Practice – Join in Now!
    Special Issue: The disrupted Journal of Media Practice – 6 Conversations around Media Practice – Join in Now!

    Underneath the announcement of the special issue we are collaboratively editing for the Journal of Media Practice. I have submitted a paper on ‘Performative Publications’ which I will be writing in hypothes.is, an open annotation software. I will write my paper in installments during the course of the conversations on the platform from July until September. I…

  • Call for Creative Works and Papers – The Disrupted Journal of Media Practice
    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…

  • Post-Digital Living Bookshelves
    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…