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Why experiment? A critical analysis of the values behind digital scholarly publishing
This is the introduction to a paper published at the Open Reflections blog published by Janneke Adema who is completing a PhD at Coventry University. Janneke discusses our own Open Humanities Press amongst other examples in an account of digital publishing in the humanities as performing an experimental role rather than simply and instrumental one. Janneke…
Mesh – Speculations and Submissions
FCJ Mesh has been launched of a desire to foster a more agile space of speculation, provocation, and mobilisation of the kind of deep transdisciplinary theory and analysis published here in The Fibreculture Journal, in like Journals, and increasingly…well… everywhere online. What we might have once called ‘grey’ or ‘precarious’ literature – the always vital…
FCJMesh-003 : On Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures 3/3
This is the third of three in a series of rejoinders commissioned from the Authors of FCJ Issue 20: Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures ahead of a launch and workshop based on the issue, the forthcoming ‘Trolls CFP’, and the future of publishing and FCJ. This rejoinder is written by Rowen Wilken of Swinburne University of…
FCJMesh-002 : On Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures 2/3
This is the second of three in a series of 3 rejoinders commissioned from the Authors of Issue 20 Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures ahead of a launch and workshop based on the issue, the forthcoming ‘Trolls CFP’, and the future of publishing. This rejoinder is written by Andrew White of University of Nottingham Ningbo…
FCJMesh-001 : On Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures 1/3
This is the first of three in a series of rejoinders commissioned from the Authors of FC-20 Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures ahead of a launch and workshop based on the issue, the forthcoming ‘Trolls CFP’, and the future of publishing. This rejoinder is written by Heather Davis of Concordia University. Heather co-authored of FCJ-143 Ouvert/Open: Common…
Speculating on Utopia: A Fibreculture Journal Launch and Workshop.
24th September 2012. 12.30 launch with workshop following from 1-4pm. Speculating on Utopia: A Fibreculture Journal and Workshop – Invite PDF To celebrate the launch of Issue 20 of The Fibreculture Journal “Networked Utopias and Speculative Futures” we invite you to a workshop gathering to explore the themes raised by the Issue (twenty.fibreculturejournal.org) and…
CFP- Special Issue for the Fibreculture Journal: The Politics of Trolling and the Negative Space of the Internet
Edited By Jason Wilson, Christian McCrea and Glen Fuller A great deal of thinking about the Internet and politics is still structured by a desire for deliberative democracy. From 1993 – when Howard Rheingold enunciated one of the Internet’s key founding myths – the virtual community – scholars have sought and found communities characterised by…
Where to Next?
We’re very happy to be publishing FCJ 20, the Network Utopias issue. It’s a fine issue. With a great deal of subtlety and force, it pulls apart the notion of network utopia, while leaving a great deal of room for what it is that networks truly give us. There’s been an enormous amount of work…
FCJ-147 Liberation Technology and the Arab Spring: From Utopia to Atopia and Beyond
Ulises A. Mejias SUNY Oswego After some initial fascination with the concept, there now appears to be more skepticism than support for the idea that tools like Twitter and Facebook are single-handedly responsible for igniting the Arab Spring movements. As we witness the immense effort and human cost that has gone into uprisings in Algeria,…
FCJ-146 Mannheim’s Paradox: Ideology, Utopia, Media Technologies, and the Arab Spring
Rowan Wilken Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Introduction This article explores the complicated historical relationship between ideology and utopia in European thought, and what this relationship can teach us when faced with the exuberant promises that characterise much new media discourse. Discussion is divided into two parts. The first develops a detailed account of how…
Future Issues and Archives
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- Cntr History & New Media
- CoDE
- Computational Culture
- Cosmos and History
- Ctrl-Z
- Culture Machine
- Digital Culture and Ed…
- Digital Humanities Alliance
- Digital Studies
- Eludamos
- Film-Philosophy
- First Monday
- Future of the Book
- Hyperrhiz
- Inflexions
- Institute of Net Cultures
- Jrnal Digital Information
- Junctures
- nmediac
- Noema
- Open Humanities Alliance
- Open Humanities Press
- Parrhesia
- Public Library of Science
- Sarai
- Transformations
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