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[Sticky 2] Fanstuff now locked
I've decided to f-lock all posts related to my own fic and art (for this reason, which is also locked for added transparency!). If you'd like to get updates on my fanstuff via here, please comment to be added. -
[Sticky 1] Public service announcement
I still crosspost here and use LJ for commenting, but my Dreamwidth account is now my home base and contains all the research-related shiny and info. Please visit! -
Post on OTW blog: Aaron Swartz and the importance of open access
New post by me on the OTW's main blog, about the importance of open access for fan studies and what I think open access really means. It also includes a small teaser for an upcoming project that I and a few other OTW folks have been hammering away at for months. (Why yes, I am kind of preoccupied with this open access thing.)
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"Academic Publisher Unveils New Journal Which Prevents All Access To Its Content"
Note: the blog post linked below is a joke, and I very much regret that pointing that out is necessary. Real academic publishing is so nuts and so close to this that I can almost imagine it happening.
Academic Publisher Unveils New Journal Which Prevents All Access To Its Content This entry was originally posted at http://unjapanologist.dreamwidth. ( Read more... ) -
[watch this video] Why data caps on mobile internet suck
I'm preparing to move back to Belgium in a couple of months, and one of the things that needs to be sorted out is what the best data plans for smartphones are over there. It's been two years and everything is different. To my great annoyance, Belgium still hasn't invented the unlimited data plan; the most I can get per month is 2 gig, which is just ( Read more... ) -
Activist who downloaded four million JSTOR articles kills himself after bullying from justice system
Remember Aaron Swartz, the information freedom activist who set off a broad online discussion about academic databases in 2011 when he downloaded about four million articles from JSTOR to make a point about how knowledge shouldn't be locked away from the public?
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Open access is bad for research, and also just like Fifty Shades of Grey
HuffPo brings a pile of bizarre with 50 Shades of Grey in Scientific Publication: How Digital Publishing Is Harming Science. A scholar called Douglas Fields argues against open access, mainly by attempting to paint it as a dastardly government takeover of science that will mean the end of rigorous research. I was a little disappointed that he didn' ( Read more... ) -
The European Fandom & Fan Studies Conference in tweets
The European Fandom & Fan Studies Conference took place on November 10, 2012 at the University of Amsterdam. It was a relatively small one-day conference, but great in terms of content and people present. I was especially pleased to see so many researchers going beyond English-language online fandoms, tackling offline fan activities or doing ( Read more... ) -
Tweeting European Fandom & Fan Studies Conference right now
At the European Fandom & Fan Studies Conference at the University of Amsterdam right now. The one-day conference just started and is being livetweeted with the hashtag #eurofandom. Drop in if you're interested! (No conference program online, alas.)
I'm just attending, not presenting, so I can spend all free mental time learning and tweeting and ( Read more... ) -
In which I was not actually arrested in a murder case
Yes, you get what you deserve when you ego-google. But since I'm building a career and all that, I like to check what pops up first when a grant committee or someone I might want to collaborate with searches for my name.
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