Tag: Sean Dockray
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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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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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Open Education: Condition Critical
Open Education: Condition Critical A panel exploring opportunities to critically and creatively experiment with different ideas of what the university and education can be http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/ Thursday November 20th 4:30-6:30pm Coventry University Panellists: Sean Dockray (The Public School/AAAAARG.ORG) – via Skype Richard Hall (De Montfort University Leicester) Shaun Hides (Coventry University) Sharon Irish (University of Illinois/FemTechNet)…
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Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing
“But as I say, let’s play a game of science fiction and imagine for a moment: what would it be like if it were possible to have an academic equivalent to the peer-to-peer file sharing practices associated with Napster, eMule, and BitTorrent, something dealing with written texts rather than music? What would the consequences be…