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How open access can transform academia for the better.
DIGITIZE THIS BOOK!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now Gary Hall University of Minnesota Press | 312 pages | 2008 ISBN 978-0-8166-4870-2 | hardcover | $60.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-4871-9 | paperback | $19.95 Electronic Mediations Series, volume 24
Gary Hall presents a timely and ambitious polemic on the potential that open access publishing has to transform both "papercentric" humanities scholarship and the institution of the university itself. Rigorously interrogating the intellectual, political, and ethical implications of open access, Digitize This Book! is a radical call for democratizing access to knowledge and transforming the structures of academic and institutional authority and legitimacy.
"Digitize This Book! makes smart, innovative interventions into fields as seemingly disparate as cultural studies, information science, and intellectual property law-to name but a few this book addresses. Well written and lively, even riotous at times, Gary Hall's book will certainly not be overlooked or forgotten. "-Kembrew McLeod
"Digitize This Book! is not, as one might imagine, a call to abandon paper books and join the digital revolution, but a brilliant and wide-ranging reflection on the ways in which digital possibilities open difficult questions about the organization of knowledge and the principles on which decisions about digital possibilities should be made. This book will be indispensable to the most serious thinking about our digital futures. "-Jonathan Culler
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
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