Digitize This Book!
The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
How open access can transform academia for the better
296 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816648719
- Published: September 23, 2008
- Series: Electronic Mediations
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Digitize This Book!
The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
Series: Electronic Mediations
ISBN: 9780816648719
Publication date: September 23rd, 2008
296 Pages
9 x 6
Hall, a pioneer in open access publishing in the humanities, 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.
Gary Hall is professor of media and performing arts at Coventry University. He is the author of Culture in Bits: The Monstrous Future of Theory, founding coeditor of the peer-reviewed online journal Culture Machine, director of the open access Cultural Studies e-Archive, CSeARCH, and cofounder of the Open Humanities Press.