#radicaloa — Public Fediverse posts

Yesterday, our Experimental Publishing reading group took as one of its chosen texts Tara McPherson’s ‘Scaling Vectors: Thoughts on the Future of Scholarly Communication’, which appeared in the Journal of Electronic Publishing in 2010.

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0013.208?view=text;rgn=main

It has lines such as: ‘While innovative publishing efforts have emerged from a variety of spaces … it is safe to say that change has not broadly swept through the humanities.’

And: ‘The impulse to conserve the status quo emerges largely from humanities scholars themselves. Faced with a variety of threats (both real and perceived) to the humanities, scholars tend to hold on to established modes of working.’

All raises the question, has much changed in the 15 years since these words were written? And if not, why not? Does anyone have any ideas?

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#academicpublishing #experimentalpublishing #journals #humanities

Tickets are now live for 'Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism'

It takes place on the afternoons of April 10/11. In-person attendance in Cambridge and online. Speakers and registration details in the following link:

https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/

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#radicaloa #SocialJustice #humanities #socialscience #activism

@jpooley

1/6 'Before Progress: On the Power of Utopian Thinking for Open Access Publishing’ by Jefferson Pooley: latest excellent read from the new Publishing After Progress special issue of Culture Machine, edited by Rebekka Kiesewetter:

https://culturemachine.net/archives/vol-23-publishing-after-progress/

#oa #OpenAccess #radicaloa #publishing #utopian #anticapitalist #degrowth #postextractivism #postcapitalism

Having moved over to #HumanitiesCommons yesterday, I believe it's time for a proper #introduction 👋🏽

Hi, I'm Toby, and am currently working as product manager of @Thoth_metadata - prior to that, I have been project manager on the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project.

With a background in Cultural and Media Studies (MA in Television Studies), I am interested in exploring #OpenScholarship practices in their many facets - currently with a focus on scholar- and community-led #OAbooks #radicalOA #OpenInfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences 📚

For the last thirteen years, I've worked in projects that sought to foster uptake of #OER and #OpenEducation practices, #FLOSS tools for teaching and learning, & #OpenScience in more general terms and in a variety of configurations.

Btw. 2012-2018, I did a part-time PhD project on TV & Cultural Memory but eventually decided to step away bc. of personal/health reasons ... #mediastudies #commodon