Hi,
Some people on this list may be interested in this new book from
Minnesota. It looks at the implications of the open access publication
and archiving of academic research for media and cultural studies and
the contemporary university.
Gary
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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 |
ISBN 978-0-8166-4871-9 |
Electronic Mediations Series, volume 24
How open access can transform academia.
In the sciences, the merits and ramifications of open access—the
electronic publishing model that gives readers free, irrevocable,
worldwide, and perpetual access to research—have been vigorously
debated. Open access is now increasingly proposed as a valid means of
both disseminating knowledge and career advancement. In Digitize This
Book! 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.
Hall explores the new possibilities that digital media have for
creatively and productively blurring the boundaries that separate not
just disciplinary fields but also authors from readers. Hall focuses
specifically on how open access publishing and archiving can revitalize
the field of cultural studies by making it easier to rethink academia
and its institutions. At the same time, by unsettling the processes and
categories of scholarship, open access raises broader questions about
the role of the university as a whole, forcefully challenging both its
established identity as an elite ivory tower and its more recent
reinvention under the tenets of neoliberalism as knowledge factory and
profit center.
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Another University Is Possible
Metadata: Notes on Creating Critical Computer Media
I. INTERNETHICS
1. Why All Academic Research and Scholarship Should Be Made Available in
Online Open Access Archives—Now!
2. Judgment and Responsibility in the Wikipedia Era
Metadata: Print This!
3. IT, Again; or, How to Build an Ethical Institution
II. HYPERPOLITICS
4. Antipolitics and the Internet
Metadata: The Specificity of New Media
5. HyperCyberDemocracy
Conclusion: Next-Generation Cultural Studies?
Metadata: The Singularity of New Media
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media and Performing Arts
School of Art and Design, Coventry University
Co-editor of Culture Machine http://www.culturemachine.net
Director of the Cultural Studies Open Access Archive
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch
Co-founder of the Open Humanities Press
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org
My website http://www.garyhall.info
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