ORCID iDOn the ethics of studying pirate cultures
Studies such as my Warez book fall under the rubric of ‘netnographies’; work that attempt to examine ethnographically the principles and characteristics of v...
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Backlist to the Future: a new business model for university presses and open-access books
As part of my efforts on Work Package 3 of the COPIM project I am engaged in a project that seeks to convert publishers to business models that will allow th...
On Reassembling Scholarly Communications: A book about the ethics and egalitarianism of open access
After a Herculean effort, coinciding with open access week 2020, our edited volume Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Glo...
An update on my Warez book: a book about the artforms of the high-level piracy scene
I am, at present, working on a book currently entitled Warez: The Economic Artforms and Illicit Crafts of the Topsite Scene, under contract with punctum book...
The Observer should not offer column inches to allow Oxford College principals to denigrate other universities
Today, in the Observer, the Sunday national newspaper of the liberal Guardian Media Group, Will Hutton offered a sobering retrospective of the university cri...
Retractions against racial discrimination
A journalist recently asked me for a comment on why I, as an academic who studies academic publishing, signed a petition calling for the retraction of Mead, ...
Rapid-response grants and disciplinary boundaries
There’s an article out today in Research Fortnight detailing some of the frustrations that we had with a recent AHRC/UKRI grant proposal. Perhaps my favourit...