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New Media Gatekeepers: Ecosystems of Access and Denial

Coventry University School of Media and Performing Arts Ellen Terry Building – ETG101 April 22nd – 12:30-16:00 17:00: Book Launch and Wine Reception   Organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media: http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/   Free Symposium. Please Register at: www.newmediagatekeepers.disruptivemedia.org.uk/   Speakers:   Margie Borschke (Macquarie University) – Music (via Skype) James Newman (Bath Spa University)…

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Videos ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu’ Symposium Now Online

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In view of the current discussion taking place over Academia.edu’s introduction of an ‘article recommendation charge’, and the subsequent #DeleteAcademiaEdu hashtag (https://twitter.com/hashtag/deleteacademiaedu?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash), we thought you might be interested in this: Last month The Centre for Disruptive Media (http://disruptivemedia.org.uk/) at Coventry University organised a symposium on academic social networking platforms called ‘Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?’…

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Radical Open Access Conference – Videos Online

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In June of last year the Radical Open Access Conference (http://radicalopenaccess.disruptivemedia.org.uk/) took place at Coventry University, organised by the Centre for Disruptive Media (disruptivemedia.org.uk) The videos of the various panels are now available underneath and on archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/@disruptive_media The conference gathered together a large community of presses, projects and thinkers exploring some of the more…

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Why Are We Not Boycotting Academia.edu?

  Janneke Adema – Chair (Coventry University, UK) Pascal Aventurier (INRA, France) Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/Coventry University, US) Gary Hall (Coventry University, UK) David Parry (Saint Joseph University, US) Registration: http://why-are-we-not-boycotting-academia-edu.eventbrite.co.uk Coventry University Tuesday 8th December 2015 3:00-6:00pm Ellen Terry Building room ET130 Organised by The Centre for Disruptive Media: www.disruptivemedia.org.uk   With over 36 million visitors each…

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Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Open Access. An Introduction for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers

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To celebrate Open Access week, The Centre for Disruptive Media in collaboration with The Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL), The Global Researchers Programme and Lanchester Library have organised an information event about Open Access for PhD students and early-career researchers. When: Wednesday, 21 October 2015 from 11:30 to 13:00 (BST) – Add to Calendar Where:…

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