Janneke Adema is a cultural and media theorist working in the fields of (book) publishing and digital culture. She is an Associate Professor in Digital Media at The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (Coventry University) where she convenes the post-publishing research strand. In her research, she explores the future of scholarly communications and experimental forms of knowledge production, where her work incorporates processual and performative publishing, radical open access, post-publishing, scholarly poethics, media studies, book history, cultural studies, and critical theory. She explores these issues in depth in her various publications, but also by supporting a variety of scholar-led, not-for-profit publishing projects, including the Radical Open Access Collective, Open Humanities Press, Post Office Press (POP), the Copim community, and the Research England Development Fund and Arcadia funded Open Book Futures project. She is a co-editor (with Dr Alyssa Arbuckle) of the Journal of Electronic Publishing. Her monograph Living Books. Experiments in the Posthumanities (MIT Press, 2021) is openly available. You can follow her research on www.openreflections.org.
Eduardo Aguado-López es un Profesor-Investigador de la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca de Lerdo; un investigador perteneciente al Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII) en el Nivel II; el Fundador y Director de Investigación del Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc. Sus líneas de investigación incluyen el Acceso Abierto, la Ciencia Abierta, la Evaluación científica, y la Sociología de la ciencia. Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, UAEMéx, Ciudad Universitaria, 50100 Toluca de Lerdo, Méx. eal123@gmail.com
Sheila Godínez-Larios es una investigadora adscrita a la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Toluca de Lerdo. Sus líneas de investigación incluyen el Acceso Abierto, las Métricas alternativas, la Comercialización del conocimiento, y el Capitalismo informacional. Sistema de Información Científica Redalyc, UAEMéx, Ciudad Universitaria, 50100 Toluca de Lerdo, Méx. sheila.pamelagl@gmail.com
Anja Groten is a designer, organiser, and educator based in Amsterdam. She holds a degree in communication design from Niederrhein University of Applied Science, Krefeld, and a master’s degree in design from Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. In 2022, she completed her doctoral research at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University. In 2013, Anja Groten co-founded the initiative Hackers & Designers, a conglomerate of practitioners from different fields and backgrounds (technology, design, art, and education). She is the Course Director of the Design Department at the Sandberg Instituut – the MA programme of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam – and works as an Assistant Professor at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts at Leiden University.
Sarah Kember is Professor of New Technologies of Communication at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Director of Goldsmiths Press. Her research centres on feminist studies of media, science and technology, including technological transformations in publishing. Her publications include iMedia. The gendering of objects, environments and smart materials (Palgrave, 2016), Whose Book is it Anyway? A view from elsewhere on publishing, copyright and creativity (Open Book Publishers, 2019) and the co-authored monograph Furious. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures (Pluto Press, 2020). Kember is a critical advocate and experimenter with open access, publishing critiques such as ‘Why Write? Feminism, Publishing and the Politics of Communication‘ and ‘Why Publish?’ alongside ambiguous works of open fact/fiction such as Astrobiology and the Search for Life on Mars (part of the Living Books about Life series) and Media, Mars and Metamorphosis.
Rebekka Kiesewetter is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, and a member of the Post-Publishing research strand. From an intersectional feminist perspective and interested in knowledge equity and pluriversality, she frequently works on the ethical, political, epistemic, and psychosocial dimensions of research, writing, editing, and publishing – in and outside academia. She is especially interested in the critical, radical, and transformational potential of collaborative processes and practices of research and communication. Rebekka has also been a Research Fellow on the Experimental Publishing Group of the Research England Development Fund and Arcadia funded Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) (2019-2023) and Open Book Futures (OBF) (2023-2026) research projects; a co-convener of the Radical Open Access Collective; a co-editor of the Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers experimental book series with Open Humanities Press; and an editorial board member of the experimental, para-academic open access journal continent.. Her work has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of Electronic Publishing and Journal of International Women’s Studies. She also consults and supports early career researchers in exploring more collaborative, horizontal, and open approaches towards publishing their monographs.
Lucie Kolb is a scholar of critical publishing with a background in visual arts, art history, and cultural studies. Her work involves studying and producing artistic knowledge through practice-oriented writing and transversal publishing. Since 2023, Lucie has been the Principal Investigator of the research project Sharing Knowledge in the Arts – funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) – which analyses computational infrastructural practices and is articulating open sharing practices. She is also the Principal Investigator of the swissuniversities funded research project Critical FAIRness, an exploratory study investigating questions related to the ‘accessibility’ and ‘re-use’ of research data in the arts. Lucie is a Docent at the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW.
Roger Magazine is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. He is author of Golden and Blue Like My Heart: Masculinity, Youth and Power Among Soccer Fans in Mexico City (University of Arizona Press 2007), The Village is Like a Wheel: Rethinking Cargos, Family and Ethnicity in Highland México (University of Arizona press, 2012) and numerous other publications on street children, soccer fans and socio-cultural alterity in Mexico.
Gabriela Méndez Cota is a full-time faculty member in the Department of Philosophy of Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, where she also contributes to the PhD in Critical Gender Studies. Her research explores the cultural, political and infrapolitical dimensions of new media and technologies. Her first book was Disrupting Maize: Food, Biotechnology and Nationalism in Contemporary Mexico (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). In English, her work has appeared in new formations, Media Theory, Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Política Común, and the Routledge Handbook of Ecocultural Identities. Her work in both English and Spanish can also be accessed through her profile in Knowledge Commons. Between 2019 and 2021 Gabriela led a practice-based educational initiative on critical/feminist/intersectional perspectives of open access, which included a collaboration with the COPIM project Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University, UK, and resulted in a collectively written experimental book titled Ecological Rewriting. Situated Engagements with the Chernobyl Herbarium (Open Humanities Press, 2023).
Valeria Mussio creció en Bahía Blanca y vive en Buenos Aires. Es licenciada en Letras por la Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina. Valeria dirige Matrerita, una editorial digital en la que publica poetas jóvenes de distintas partes de latinoamérica. Su obra literaria forma parte de la antología de ecopoesía Ruge el Bosque 1: Cono Sur (2023). Fue ganadora de la Bienal de Arte Joven de Buenos Aires (2021, 2023, en las categorías Poesía y Proyectos Literarios). Valeria forma parte del proyecto Isla Invisible de Ferrowhite Museo Taller, la Reserva Natural de Usos Múltiples Bahía Blanca, Bahía Verde y Bahía Falsa, la Reserva Natural Islote de la Gaviota Cangrejera. Publicó Hasta Pronto, querida (Peces de Ciudad Ediciones, 2019), Nuestros refugios a medio armar ( Editorial Liliputienses, 2022) y Un perro no sabe que puede destruir (Alquimia Ediciones, 2022).
Jefferson Pooley is a Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, and directs mediastudies.press, a nonprofit open access publisher in communication and media studies. He writes frequently on open access and related issues in scholarly communications. He is co-founder and co-lead of MediArXiv, the open archive for the media studies fields, and co-edits a pair of journals (History of Social Science and History of Media Studies). His research interests centre on the history of media research within the context of the social sciences, with special focus on the early Cold War behavioural sciences.
Carlos Ramírez Kobra – poeta, publicista y gestor cultural – es coordinador de la Plataforma PLACA en México, gestiona eventos culturales como el Recital de Poesía Chilango Andaluz y el Gabinete Salvaje. Ha publicado las plaquettes ‘Los Salvajes de Ciudad AKA’ (featuring Javier Moro Hernández, Deleátur, 2010) y ‘Una palabra con nombre bala’ (featuring Javier Moro Hernández, Dos10 Studio digital, 2012), los poemarios/proyectos transmediales Own Dream Code (Editorial Ultramarina C&D, 2020), Dios un píxel (Centro de Cultura Digital, 2022), Visual Trance (featuring Aljandra Olson, Multiplataforma/Malviaje Libros, 2023), y Cyber_BardX (Catedra Max Aub/Broken English, 2023). Sus piezas audiovisuales forman parte de selecciones oficiales de festivales internacionales de videopoesía y cine experimental. Trabaja desde hace 18 años en proyectos de poesía transmedia/expandida.
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Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of publishing, feminisms, and Free Software. In various constellations, she works on re-imagining computational practices to disinvest from technological monoculture and the regime of The Cloud. With Miriyam Aouragh, Seda Gürses, and Helen Pritchard, she runs The Institute for Technology in the Public Interest – a trans-practice and para-academic gathering of activists, artists, engineers and theorists – that creates spaces for articulating what computational infrastructures in the ‘public interest’ might be when ‘public interest’” is always in-the-making. With Jara Rocha, she edited Volumetric Regimes: Material Cultures of Quantified Presence (Open Humanities Press, 2022). The publication results from a collective disobedient research project which interrogated the concrete and at the same time fictional entities of ‘bodies’ in the context of volumetric technologies. In the research project Ecologies of Dissemination funded by the Swedish Research Council, she develops, together with Eva Weinmayr, decolonial feminist approaches to open access publishing. Until 2021, Femke was responsible for the artistic direction of Constant, an association for art and media based in Brussels. Constant generates performative publishing, curatorial processes, poetic software, experimental research, and educational prototypes in local and international contexts. Femke regularly teaches at the New Performative Practices MA Programme at Stockholm University of the Arts and supports artistic research at the Maastricht Experimental Research In and through the Arts Network MERIAN. She also contributes to Nubo, a cooperative which provides locally hosted, open source digital services.
Eva Weinmayr engages in a collaborative practice that is grounded in contemporary art, radical education, and institutional analysis. Concerned with the micro-politics of publishing from an intersectional feminist perspective, she published her doctoral thesis titled Noun to Verb at HDK Valand, Academy of Art and Design Gothenburg on a MediaWiki. As Interims Chair of the Faculty of Art and Education at Munich Art Academy (2022-2023), together with students. she co-initiated kritilab, an open source platform for discrimination-critical perspectives at the intersection of art and education. From 2019 to 2022 she co-led the EU-funded collective research and study programme Teaching to Transgress Toolbox inspired by US activist, teacher and theorist bell hooks (with erg, Brussels, BE). Current artistic research-based projects include Ecologies of Dissemination, funded by the Swedish Research Council, where she, together with Femke Snelting, develops decolonial feminist approaches to knowledge sharing and practices of reuse; and ‘Teaching the Radical Catalogue – a Syllabus’ where she, together with Lucie Kolb, interrogates the prevailing methods and practices of naming and classifying knowledges in institutional libraries in the Global North. Eva currently works as a Researcher at HDK Valand, Academy of Art and Design Gothenburg and teaches as Visiting Research Professor at Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM) at the Basel Academy of Art and Design (HGK), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW. She also is a Visiting Research Fellow at Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) at Coventry University.
Contributing Reviewers
Alyssa Arbuckle is the Research Infrastructure Grants Officer for the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, cross-appointed as a Special Advisor with the Érudit Consortium. She is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Electronic Publishing and a researcher with the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Partnership, where she co-facilitates its Connection cluster. Until late 2023, Alyssa served as Co-Director of the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at the University of Victoria as well as Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. Alyssa holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Victoria; her dissertation focused on open social scholarship and its implementation.
Miranda Barnes is an academic researcher and writer originally from the US, now living in the UK. She currently serves as Research Associate in Archiving & Preserving Open Access Books on the Open Book Futures Project (OBF) and worked on its predecessor, the COPIM Project. Miranda’s work in OBF examines the challenges of small and scholar-led open access presses in archiving and preserving their monographs and the broader challenges surrounding the digital preservation of longform scholarly works. Miranda also serves as the Product Manager for the Thoth Open Archiving Network and is based within the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University.
Simon Bowie is an open source software developer at the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University, UK, where he works on the Open Book Futures (OBF) project helping to build community-owned and scholar-led open infrastructures for open access book publishing with a particular focus on experimental book publishing. Read more about Simon’s work and research at https://simonxix.com/.
Lucía Céspedes (she/her) is currently based at Université de Montréal, Canada, where she is a member of the UNESCO Chair in Open Science at the École de Bibliothéconomie et des Sciences de l’Information and a research counselor at the Érudit Consortium. She is also a research assistant at the Scholarly Communications Lab at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada). Her research brings together sociolinguistics, social studies of science and technology, and scholarly communication, in order to analyse conditions of production and circulation of scientific knowledge in centres and peripheries.
Joana Chicau is a designer and researcher – with a background in dance. She researches the intersection of the body with the designed and programmed environment, aiming at widening the ways in which digital sciences is presented and made accessible to the public. Her practice and exploration interweaves web programming with choreography – from the making of online platforms to performances and workshops. She is a lecturer and PhD candidate at the Creative Institute at the University of the Arts London.
Alberto López Cuenca is Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico), where he teaches and researches on contemporary art theory, intellectual property and new cultural forms, as well as on cultural practices and urban geography. He has widely lectured and edited publications on these topics, especially in Latin America, for example Los comunes digitales: nuevas ecologías del trabajo artístico (2016) and, with Renato Bermúdez Dini, Más allá del derecho de autor: Otros términos para debatir la propiedad intelectual (2022). His research contributions in English have been published in, among other journals, Afterall, Third Text, Cultural and Urban Geography, Urban Studies, and Critical Arts.
Mara Karagianni is an artist, technologist and educator working critically with software and infrastructures for publishing. One of their current projects is ServPub, a collective computational publishing platform. They teach at école de recherche graphique in Brussels.
Samuel A. Moore is a scholarly communication specialist at Cambridge University Library and a college research associate at King’s College Cambridge. His research explores the ethics and politics of academic knowledge production and research communication, specifically on topics relating to academic publishing and open research. He has a PhD in Digital Humanities from King’s College London and is also one of the organisers of the Radical Open Access Collective.
Nikki Fairchild is Associate Professor in Creative Methodologies and Education, School of Education, Languages and Linguistics, University of Portsmouth. Her research is theoretically informed by critical feminist materialist and posthumanist theory-praxis and has two bifurcations. The first is employing research-creation and creative methodologies to provide different ways to disturb and enact knowledge production in conference spaces. The second focuses on creative transdisciplinary ways to activate and entangle relationality with place-spaces, time, temporality, intersectionality, and education, exploring what place-spaces make possible when thinking about the ways bodies are impacted, enabled or constrained.
Domenico Fiormonte is lecturer in the Sociology of Communication and Culture in the Department of Political Sciences at University Roma Tre. He has edited and co-edited several collections of digital humanities texts, and has published books and articles on digital texts, geopolitics of knowledge and cultural criticism. With Sukanta Chaudhuri and Paola Ricaurte he has edited the Global Debates in the Digital Humanities (Minnesota University Press, 2022). His latest monograph is Para una crítica del texto digital. Filología, literatura y redes (A Coruña, 2023).
Julien McHardy is a German-Scottish designer, dramaturge, and para-academic. He collaborates with theatre-makers, cultural institutions, artists, universities, and commercial clients on strategies, stories, research, exhibitions, performances, and books. He thrives in collectives (sometimes). Julien aims to work from the heart. Besides running his studio in Amsterdam, Julien contributes to the Open Book Futures (OBF) research project. In 2023, he joined the climate innovation cooperative 42hacks.com to figure out what on Earth remains to be done. He is also a founding member of the publishing collective Mattering Press and of ScholarLed.
Matías F. Milia (he/him) is a sociologist trained in Science and Technology Studies. Argentine-born, he has lived and worked in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, and France. Using digital and ethnographic methods, he currently studies the entanglements of data infrastructures, environmental knowledge, participatory science, and the dynamics of the adoption of open science and open access. In his work, he prioritises a translational approach, searching for practical implications and potential uses of research findings.
Fernanda Mugica es Magister en Letras H (UNMdP) y Becaria Doctoral (CONICET), con un proyecto de investigación sobre literatura digital y procesos de subjetivación/desubjetivación. Publicó Un billete de mil australes encontrado en un libro de Carl Sagan (EMR 2018; Liliputienses, 2021), Soñé (Editorial Matrerita, 2021), El núcleo duro (Goles Rosas, 2015) y Alberta (Honesta, 2014). Participó en diversas antologías: Archipiélagos (UNLP, 2018), Van llegando (Mansalva, 2017), y Las olas (Letra Sudaca, 2015). En 2020, ganó el primer premio en el Concurso de Ensayos Críticos de Arte argentino y latinoamericano, organizado por la Fundación PROA y la Asociación de Críticos de Arte.
Élika Ortega is an assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Colorado Boulder. She writes about digital literature and media, cultural hybridity, and book studies. Her book Binding Media. Hybrid Print-Digital Literature from across de Americas is forthcoming on the Text Technologies series at Stanford University Press.
Priya Rajasekar’s interdisciplinary research straddles cultural studies, politics, environmental and social justice. She is a programme manager at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) and co-convenor of the CISL’s Business and Social Justice online course.
Lozana Rossenova is a digital designer and researcher. In 2021, she completed her PhD at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (London South Bank University) in collaboration with Rhizome, a leading international born-digital art organisation. She explored questions of presentation and performativity in Rhizome’s online art archive. Rossenova is currently a Postdoc Researcher at the Open Science Lab at TIB (German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover). Her research focuses on open source and community-driven approaches to digital archives. She lectures internationally on open data infrastructures, community archives, and hybrid publishing.
Dubravka Sekulić is an architect, educator, and theorist of the built environment. Drawing connections in her work between political emancipation and spatial literacy, Dubravka has been actively involved in projects that challenge asymmetries in access to knowledge and promote archiving knowledge from below. She is the Programme Lead of MA City Design at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Currently, she is writing a book City against the City: Minor planning for the liberated future and working on a project Kuću gradim a kamena nemam: on memory and refusal in the afterlife of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Toby Steiner studied in Hamburg and London and holds an MA in Television Studies. He has been working in the wider area of open scholarship for more that 13 years, most recently as the Project Manager on the international Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) research project (2019-2023). Since 2023, he is now COO of the COPIM spin-off Thoth Open Metadata. He is also volunteering as co-editor on CSTOnline, the open companion blog to Critical Studies in Television, and a co-convener of the Radical Open Access Collective (ROAC).
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is a professor in educational research at the University of South Florida where she directs the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and the Interdisciplinary Education PhD programs. Broadly concerned with research ethics, Jenni draws on critical, poststructural, and new materialist theories to explore how methodologies and methods create knowledges, lives, and communities to and for which researchers are responsible.
Zenia Yébenes is a professor in the Humanities Department at Universidad Metropolitana Unidad Cuajimalpa. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a PhD in Anthropological Sciences from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Unidad Iztapalapa. Her research interests are: belief regimes, practices and imaginaries around the rational and the irrational, the normal and the pathological; epistemology and historical ontology; Forms of Life and subjectivation processes. Her last two books are: Hechos de tiempo (Editorial Herder, Barcelona, 2023) and Indicios visionarios: Para una prehistoria de la alucinación (Universidad El Rosario, UAM Cuajimalpa, 2021).