Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals

📢✨ New OA book out now with Amsterdam University Press:

Governing the Digital Society: Platforms, Artificial Intelligence, and Public Values

Edited by José van Dijck, Karin van Es, Anne Helmond, and @fvandervlist

Open Access: https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789048562718/governing-the-digital-society

Copim Compass -- a one-stop knowledge base on publishing open access books https://compass.copim.ac.uk/books

Any and all interested in book typesetting, please join our ninth ScholarLed Salon (next Thursday), where member presses gather for informal sharing around a rotating cast of topics—this time on typesetting. May 8, 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86585035021?pwd=l50a1wG3CwKKaG8qJPXdKrV7bn2qAI.1

The April History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! https://buttondown.email/hms/archive/history-of-media-studies-newsletter-april-2025

📢 We are really excited to announce the speakers, journals, and presses participating in this year's ROAC conference “Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism”, happening on 10 and 11 April 2025 online and at the Milstein Room, Cambridge University Library (UK).

Speakers: Élisabeth Arsenault, Sarah-Anne Arsenault, Lucy Barnes, Simon Batterbury, Marc Herbst, Rupert Gatti, Angela Okune, Charmaine Pereira, Jeff Pooley, Ela Przybyło, Magalí Rabasa, Ash Sharma, Stevphen Shukaitis, Lauren Smith, Alessandra Tosi, Vincent van Gerven Oei

Journals & Presses: darkmatter, ÉSBC, Feral Feminisms, Feminist Africa, Journal of Political Ecology, Journal of Radical Librarianship, mediastudies.press, Minor Compositions, Open Book Publishers, punctum books, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest.

@journalofpoliticalecology @mediadotpress @OpenBookPublish

More details, and registration via https://radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/radicaloa3/

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures at Coventry University is excited to share the updated programme for Fan Studies and True Crime in the New Media Environment—an inaugural workshop bringing together academics exploring the intersections of fan studies, true crime, and new media.

Date: May 8, 1:30–6:00 PM
Location: Coventry University (in-person with hybrid offered)
Organized & hosted by: Dr. Judith Fathallah (Killer Fandom, mediastudies.press, 2023: https://www.mediastudies.press/killer-fandom)

View the programme: https://livelancsac-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/personal/fathallj_lancaster_ac_uk/Ee-g3rgeQ6lItapQcWsx2hUBwrm02GJitlyDDj8NBeBvcA?rtime=XTF0PEdw3Ug

Register here: https://www.eventsforce.net/fanstudies

Light refreshments provided. A small amount of travel funding is available (priority given to PhD students & precarious scholars, first come, first served).

For enquiries, email judith.fathallah@coventry.ac.uk.

Join for an afternoon of critical discussions on true crime, fandom and digital culture.

#crime #truecrime #fan #fandom #newmedia

Do you have experience using the publishing platform Juncture?

Join our Experimental Publishing Group for a hybrid online session exploring markdown #writing & #publishing for deep mapping

🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏲️ 15:00-16:30 CET

Register now via KMeet 👉 https://copim.pubpub.org/pub/markdown-dive-deep/

New partnership between @Thoth_metadata and the University of London Press 🤝

Working together to create an even more #inclusive and connected #academic #publishing ecosystem 😍

🔗 https://buff.ly/rqssFLV

The press is thrilled to welcome Natascha Chtena as our inaugural Publishing Project Manager!
https://www.mediastudies.press/pub/2025-03-chtena-announcement

Consider joining us tomorrow for our 8th ScholarLed Salon (a check-in with the good people at @Thoth_metadata). Details at the link https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ind2503&L=RADICALOPENACCESS&O=D&X=680057257BEB161ACE&Y=pooley@muhlenberg.edu&P=1506

Can’t wait to read this! Congratulations to @garyhall for his new book published by Open Humanities Press: ‘Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence’:

https://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/. Published in the MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series.

"As information professionals, open advocates, and communities who just give a damn, it’s important to educate ourselves on the tactics pro-censorship advocates have used to push their agenda forward so we can effectively fight against it" - @LibrariansReed on the must-read @libraryfutures report on censorship in US libraries. Talk about timely. Check out our latest #InProfile: https://buff.ly/pdqvVzr

Academic freedom is under threat.

We’re proud to join over 2,500 signatories in supporting the Declaration to Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship. Scholarly research must remain free from political interference—censorship undermines global knowledge, scientific integrity, and public well-being.

By signing this declaration, we commit to resisting government-imposed restrictions on research and standing up for academic freedom. Join us in taking action: Sign the declaration here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/3bwuc38f

#DefendResearch #AcademicFreedom #NoToCensorship

The February History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! https://buttondown.email/hms/archive/history-of-media-studies-newsletter-february-2025

Researchers' experience of publishing academic books Open Access

Copim's Janneke Adema explains how not only does publishing books open access increases the visibility of research and and researchers, it also enables academia to be more creative and to experiment with how research outputs are communicated.
Driving experimentation.

Read more ▶️ https://buff.ly/3D4Y1XN

Part of a series, you can read all the case studies here ⤵️

https://zenodo.org/records/13944972

Language Science Press signed the "Declaration To #DefendResearch Against US Government Censorship" https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/19/declaration-to-defendresearch-against-us-government-censorship/
You can sign, too!

The Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC) and its @PostPublishing research strand are pleased to announce a hybrid workshop titled ‘Fan Studies and True Crime in the New Media Environment: A New Academic Network’ on May 8, 2025 at 1.30pm to 6pm. This event will gather academics interested in the intersections of fan studies; true crime; and new media, organized and hosted by Dr. Judith Fathallah.

It will include short presentations by various scholars on work accomplished so far, followed by discussion of next steps, including research questions, methodologies and outputs we wish to see, as well as potentials for funding.

Please register at https://www.eventsforce.net/fanstudies

OUT NOW: Arabic in Context: Essays on Language, Dialects, and Culture in Honour of Martin R. Zammit! This Festschrift is a tribute to the remarkable scholarly legacy of the Reverend Professor Zammit, celebrating his extensive contributions to the fields of Semitic Studies, Arabic linguistics, and comparative Semitic philology. Read it here: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0445

Ok, we're doing this. Outside The Lines is live! Call it a soft launch: https://outsidethelines.pub/call-it-a-soft-launch/