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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · Aug 31

The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!

History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025

History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025 Welcome to the 52nd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · Jul 18

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective

Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Jul 9

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 9

The time has come to reinvent academic publishing. Over the last years conglomerates have bought up once respectable publishers and turned them into rent extraction machines, generating obscene profits from tax-payer funded research and unremunerated academic labor./
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Catherine Grant @filmstudiesff.bsky.social · Jul 12

New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

Understanding Video Activism on Social Media | Intellect

What political power do videos on social media have? In what ways do they exert influence, shape publics and change political life? And how can committed civil society actors in this field assert them...

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Jul 10

Friends, please share!

Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Jul 9

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · Jul 9

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network.

The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.

👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL

The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · Jul 9

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:

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A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · Jul 5

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Jul 7

At the Open Library of Humanities, we’re proud to stand alongside UK library directors on shared initiatives like the Open Journals Collective (@ojcollective.bsky.social). We believe research should serve communities, not corporate shareholders. (2/2)

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Judith Fathallah @judithfathallah.bsky.social · Jun 25

What a lovely review of Killer Fandom in the International Journal of Communication (OA of course), thank you so much! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
#OABooks #FanStudies

International Journal of Communication

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · Jun 24

Here we have @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social y.social modelling the remarkably well adorned @copim.bsky.social community stand at D07! Come and talk to us about all things community-led, Diamond open access books #bibliocon25 :)

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · Jun 9

Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · May 27

Really happy to share the prize nominations for OBP authors today! The authors are brilliant and it's fantastic to see an independent #OpenAccess press listed alongside university press colleagues for these awards.

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · May 27

Enormous congratulations to them & to the other nominees for this wonderful recognition of their fine research & writing 👏

We're also delighted that through these nominations we're flying the flag for independent #OpenAccess presses: we're hugely proud to represent this growing community.

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · May 23

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

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Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social · May 12

New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Vincent Mosco: Critical Communication: A Memoir, doi.org/10.16997/boo...

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · May 12

The Media Theory journal is organising its inaugural conference. November 7-8, 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

CFP

Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · May 7

mediastudies.press has opened its annual proposal window for its 4 series
Media Manifold
www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo...
Public Domain
www.mediastudies.press/public-domai...
Open Reader
www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-...
History of Media Studies
www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · May 2

🎉A huge congratulations to Stefan Ekman, author of URBAN FANTASY, on the being name a finalist in the non-fiction category of the Locus Awards!!🎉 It's #OpenAccess so start reading here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...

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Radish Press a.k.a Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social · May 2

Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · Jan 21

22-23 May. Histories, Presents & Futures of Media & Communication
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(Marking 50yrs of Media at Westminster/Polytechnic of Central London)

Keynotes:
Payal Arora
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social
Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social

50 Years of Media at Westminster - CAMRI

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ScholarLed @scholarled.bsky.social · May 2

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=l50a1

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · May 1

We’re excited to announce that a Spanish translation of Gary Hall’s Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence will be published by Ediciones mimesis next year:

www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

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Open Humanities Press– Masked Media

A scholar led open access publishing collective

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · May 1

NEW author profile 📣

We catch up with Daniel Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) about his #book "Empire Found"

Published #OpenAccess by @livunipress.bsky.social in 2022 thanks to @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🤝

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Opening the Future, Author Profile: Daniel Silva

Copim catch up with author Daniel Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) about his book "Empire Found", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · Apr 28

1/4 Hear from librarians, scholars, OA publishers, and open infrastructure providers about Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_M... @punctumbooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books

YouTube video by Open Book Collective

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