Hello,



Just drawing attention to some blog items that may be of interest to the MeCCSA community...



The LSE's Impact of Social Sciences blog is often full of interesting things, not just about 'impact' but open access, public engagement, academic publishing, etc.

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/



The timing of this mention is not entirely random, as a post by me appeared there today, looking towards a 'publish, then filter' model for academic publishing. Comments welcome. That's at:

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/07/10/publish-then-filter-research/



Meanwhile we've been running a lively AHRC Digital Transformations project, in partnership with Tate, the British Library, MuseumNext and others, which is about the relationship between media and cultural institutions and the communities of enthusiasts which surround them online.



Our blog features many guest writers, and can be found at:

http://www.digitaltransformations.org.uk/



Recent posts include:



* "Digital transformations in ownership and intellectual property" by Charles Beckett



* "Remixing the fashion commons" by Amy Twigger Holroyd



* "Let the media drown" by Dyfrig Jones



* "Cultural remix – Have context, provenance, and truth had their day?" by Nora McGregor



* "Hackerspaces for connected learning" by Andrew Schrock



* "Some thoughts on curation and privacy" by Rosamund Davies



* "Designs on Conversation" by Sunil Manghani



* "Building platforms for creativity: Eight principles" by David Gauntlett



* "Page, Screen, Space – The Digital Imagination and the Real World" by Anna Lea



And many more.



Browse around http://www.digitaltransformations.org.uk/, read and comment!



Best wishes



David









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David Gauntlett - http://www.theory.org.uk/david

Professor of Media and Communications, and

Co-Director of the Communications and Media Research Institute,

University of Westminster

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