The ebook as paperback?
In a recent article for the Wall Street Journal, Nicholas Carr takes a skeptical view on ebooks. Noting a decline in sales of ebooks and ebook reading devices, he argues that the death of print might...
View ArticleA quick glance at business models of academic social networking services
Services such as Mendeley, Academia.edu and ResearchGate promise to transform research: they connect researchers in collaborative digital environments, provide venues for publication, and develop...
View ArticleThe political consequences of academic paywalls
Sarah Kendzior discusses how restricting access to scholarly information leads to worse decisions by expert bodies – with potentially fatal outcomes, as in the case of deciding on asylum claims by...
View ArticleThe invisible labour of book digitisation
If you have a chance to visit next week’s Transmediale media arts festival in Berlin (and hopefully drop by at our workshops), make sure you don’t miss Andrew Norman Wilson’s performance Movement...
View ArticleThe People’s Ebook
Two weeks ago at Transmediale, Janneke Adema and Gary Hall reminded us that it might be worthwile to investigate past and current artistic engagements with the book in order to reimagine the book for...
View ArticleKnowledge Unlatched: A new business model for Open Access monographs?
As part of our research into new business models in Open Access publishing we are interviewing managers at various scholarly publishers about the answers they find to the challenges posed by the...
View ArticleWriting feminism into Wikipedia
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/08/storming-wikipedia-women-problem-internet
View ArticleKnowledge Unlatched releases pilot collection: 28 books made Open Access
We wrote about the business model of Knowledge Unlatched a while ago, an initiative that seeks to link libraries with publishers in order to ‘unlatch’ scholarly monographs, i.e. to publish them as Open...
View ArticleGreg Elmer, Going Public: Accounting for Social Media
As part of our ongoing Philosophy of the Web workshop series we had the honour of welcoming Greg Elmer (Ryerson University) to the Centre for Digital Cultures. During his talk, Greg outlined an...
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