Great topic.

I have to say that it helps if your journal is online and not bound to the tyranny of paper, or for that matter, conventional publishers - although they are getting better.

Surveillance & Society has always advocated publishing in all kinds of formats. Having said that, we have found very few authors doing things differently, and the stuff we have published that is in video format (or indeed other audiovisual media) tends to be form the realm of new media art, as opposed to attempts to do 'social science' in other formats.

Being an open-access journal, we try to use other free ways to display video and other audiovisual stuff - we use a bit.tv stream for video, and flickr for still image galleries.

We did an entire special issue on this basis, with image-heavy articles, a video, and a slideshow, last year, and we have published other video art work.

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/issue/view/Performance

However, we did publish one piece that presented a British police cinema camera surveillance film from the 1930s,a long with an article about it.

http://www.surveillance-and-society.org/ojs/index.php/journal/issue/view/Relaunch

But we would love to have submissions from people presenting their social science in other ways than the usual, and that seems still to be hard to find.

Chicken and egg?

David MW.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Berg <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Saturday, June 25, 2011 21:42
Subject: Re: Video in journals - a question for (mostly) editors
To: [log in to unmask]

> ACME (www.acme-journal.org) has published a number of articles
> with both
> sound and video files and we encourage more submissions that
> either include
> video, or are themselves video files.  Out first attempt to
> publish sound
> files (discussing the music of Matt Johnson:
> http://www.acme-journal.org/vol1/aitken.pdf) ran afoul of a
> large corporate
> music company that would not release the copyright permission
> even under
> conditions of Œfair dealing¹ (review).  Since then,
> however, we¹ve had some
> good experiences getting copyright clearance.  Our second
> attempt was much
> more successful (see Pratt and Kirby, 2003:
> http://www.acme-journal.org/vol2/PrattKirby.pdf).
>
> We will  publish a song in the next issue (vol. 10, issue
> 2) of ACME (The
> Bus Hub, by Kafui Attoh), along with a series of commentaries
> about the
> significance of such alternative forms of scholarly works
>
> In addition, The UBC Centre for Social, Spatial & Economic
> Justice (
> http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/cssej/publishing/cssejpress.html) has been
> publishing videos in both DVD format and streaming online. 
> Unlike journals
> published by Elsevier, Wiley-Blackwell, or Taylor & Francis, we

> publisheverything using Creative Commons Licenses, which opens

> up access to
> knowledge rather than enclosing it for purposes of capital
> accumulation.
> I¹m not sure I¹d agree with your characterization of a journal as

> Œprogressive¹ because it is willing to publish videos.  It

> may be
> progressive, but much of the reasoning behind such decisions is
> based on the
> need to continue to accumulate profits on the backs of academic
> staff, state
> research funders, skilled (but low paid) labourers (in the production

> process) located Œoverseas¹, etc.  These issues are always

> complex and
> contradictory.
>
> Lawrence
> --
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>
>
>
> On 11-06-25 1:11 PM, "Bradley L. Garrett"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Felix this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! Both
> the article you
> > reference here and the prototype are very enticing - although
> I couldn't help
> > notice with the former that the web version of the article has
> embedded video
> > and active hyperlinks while the PDF version has still shots
> from the video and
> > the hyperlinks are not active. Surely this is a headache to
> essentially> produce two different articles for publication?
> >
> > I also can't resist mentioning, at the risk of sounding like
> Henry Jenkins,
> > that this article looks a lot like a blog posting. Do you see
> a media
> > convergence taking place that may at one point meld currently
> autonomous forms
> > a little more closely, perhaps causing journals to become a
> bit more open
> > access (dodges shoe) as they increasingly link to sources and
> material outside
> > journal pages?
> >
> > Elsevier has clearly made a sound strategic decision here and
> I do hope it's
> > an emerging trend as you imply. I agree with you you that once
> that technical
> > scaffolding is constructed, the real juicy issues will then
> emerge about
> > copyright, ethics, etc. For instance, what do you do with a
> video clip that
> > has background music playing (as in a store) that is copyright
> protected? The
> > last thing we need is Elsevier getting sued by Sony and
> blaming an author or
> > something. Also, inevitably journals may have to begin asking
> authors to
> > collect video appearance release forms from people as we do in
> TV production -
> > and perhaps they would need to make those forms available? I
> hope this
> > wouldn't be the case, that we are trusted as scholars to have
> consent, but
> > they are some issues to consider. Of course, anthropology has
> been dealing
> > with those issues for over 100 years, we could always look to
> them for
> > guidance (dodges another shoe).
> >
> > The other issue here, just to push it a little further (as you
> know I am prone
> > to do), is at what point, given Elsevier has made this jump,
> they might start
> > commissioning whole video or audio articles. I still think
> it's a shame that
> > we stifle much create output by conforming to particular
> output expectations.
> > I know that is mostly for bureaucratic reasons and has little
> to do with the
> > desires or wishes of editors or "authors" but it would be
> great to see
> > journals lead the charge on that. After all, as Mike Crang has

> written> ³literature isŠ just one creative Œmedia¹ through which

> cultural ideas are
> > produced and reproduced² (Crang 1998: 81).
> >
> > ;)
> >   
> >     -Brad
> >
> > On 25 Jun 2011, at 12:16, Driver, F wrote:
> >
> >> Bradley
> >>
> >> good question.
> >>
> >> The Journal of Historical Geography in common with all
> Elsevier journals
> >> (Geoforum, Political Geography, for example) is already set
> up to take
> >> embedded video content. This was a strategic decision by
> Elsevier. Video is
> >> embedded in the article. Not sure this applies to many other
> Geography>> journals yet but it won't be long. History is a bit
> further behind though.
> >>
> >> The Elsevier model is largely a science model. For an example
> of embedded
> >> video in one of their science journals see
> >> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077722909001011
> >>
> >> Incidentally shortly Elsevier are launching a new look for
> articles in all
> >> their online journals ('article of the future') which will
> allow for new ways
> >> of presenting and interacting with data on screen, including
> visual data. For
> >> one prototype see
> http://www.articleofthefuture.com/S0031018208004690/.>>
> >> I am not sure if this is 'progressive' or 'daring' in your
> terms, but this is
> >> the way science/academic publishing is going. Actually the
> main issues now
> >> are not technical, they are legal, aesthetic, cultural,
> ethical etc.
> >> Copyright is the big one, I would say.
> >>
> >> best
> >>
> >> FD
> >>
> >> From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
> >> [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Bradley L. Garrett
> >> [[log in to unmask]]
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 5:43 PM
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Subject: Video in journals - a question for (mostly) editors
> >>
> >> Hey Critters,
> >>
> >> I'm currently writing a book chapter on video as geographic
> method, building
> >> on my Progress article last year some of you may have seen
> >>
> (http://phg.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/12/03/0309132510388337.abstract).>> As I'm digging through the very limited literature on the topic (much if it
> >> out since I wrote my article just a few months ago!), I am
> being struck by
> >> how journals are handling increasing requests to utilise
> video in articles.
> >> Some include hyperlinks to videos "outside" the article, some
> ask so put
> >> still frames in as figures, others "sync up" the article and
> video in some
> >> way on their websites and the most progressive or daring,
> like Geography
> >> Compass and Liminalities, are actually commissioning video
> articles (I have
> >> one in each).
> >>
> >> Given that most journals are now primarily digital, cameras
> costs are
> >> decreasing rapidly and becoming more ubiquitous, and more
> people are
> >> (finally!) writing about the merits of video as method (Eric
> Laurier for
> >> instance has produced a veritable mountain of work), we are
> clearly going to
> >> see more people wanting to use video in their publications
> and produce videos
> >> aspublications. It seems clear that standards will soon begin
> to be laid for
> >> how this is going to work. I would be interested to hear from
> journal editors
> >> on this issue. Do you have plans in place for this? Is it
> discussed in
> >> editorial meetings? Do you think video has the potential to
> become an
> >> alternative form of scholarly publication? Do you find it
> painful when
> >> someone says "I have a video clip I want to include?" or does
> it excite you?
> >>
> >> I am not asking this to painfully goad anyone having trouble
> dealing with the
> >> issue - I myself am writing the first PhD in the Geog Dept at
> Royal Holloway
> >> that will be composed of and marked on text, photography and
> video and it is
> >> a tough negotiation figuring out how to make the digital copy
> jive with the
> >> paper thesis. Anyway, I would be happy to to responses on or
> off list. Please
> >> be aware that I may incorporate your responses in some way
> into the book
> >> chapter.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >> __________________________________
> >> Bradley L. Garrett
> >> PhD Candidate
> >> Department of Geography
> >> Royal Holloway, University of London
> >> P:  +001(310) 694-1155 (until July 2011)
> >> E: [log in to unmask]
> >> W: http://www.placehacking.co.uk
> >>
> >> "The ongoing wow is happening right now."
> >> - Speed Levitch
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>  
>
>
>
>

Dr David Murakami Wood
Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Surveillance Studies | Surveillance Studies Centre
Associate Professor | Department of Sociology | Cross-Appointed in Department of Geography
Queen's University | Ontario
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