McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. on Wed, 27 Jul 2011 07:37:37 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> some more nuanced thoughts on publishing, editing, reading, using |
Hello, This is all very complicated, and I've thought that it may be best, as an editor of a journal, to stay out of the dialogue, but I think that there are many good insights stated on nettime--and a few misconceptions. To some very small degree, editors (I am editor of Feminist Media Studies, a Routledge/Taylor and Francis Ltd journal) can negotiate better or worse deals. Ultimately, the publishers have the last word, however. This conversation on nettime has continued to the extent that I no longer remember who said what, but we do pay for images permissions via money wired to me from T&F. It took a long time to negotiate this deal, and I doubt that every T&F journal editor has arranged things in this way. As I think that we tend to know, paying for having one's *work* published is called 'vanity publishing' and generally is unacceptable for those authors who wish to be promoted. I *wish* that we were an open journal, but we have a closed journal, and there's nothing to do about that except to quit publishing feminist media studies pieces in the only journal that publishes only feminist media studies and is international in scope. Now, then, we have to deal with ISI/Thompson Reuters, and our desire to not have a relationship with these sorts of operations. My point, I suppose: anyone needing/wanting to publish in, review for, read, and be on the editorial boards of journals should be well-educated in the intricacies of journal production. My question, which I hope is productive: How do we go about *teaching* this? In the past few years, I have been asked perhaps a dozen times to offer presentations on this subject; so has my co-editor and other editors with whom I'm familiar. But, talking doesn't amount to change necessarily. Perhaps I should end by noting that, as editors, we receive money only in the form of 'expenses', so being an editor of a journal may seem masochistic at worst and a labor of love at best, Regards, Lisa -- Lisa McLaughlin, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Mass Communication & Program in Women¹s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies Miami University-Ohio Contact: Mass Communication Williams Hall Miami University-Ohio Oxford, Ohio 45056 USA Tele: 513-529-3547 Fax: 513-529-1835 Email: mclauglm@muohio.edu On 7/26/11 5:53 PM, "Nick" <nettime@njw.me.uk> wrote: > Quoth Marco Ricci: > >> library.nu), i consider them the heroes of our times, and when i think about >> the amount of information freely available to anyone willing to use it, when >> i think that i can now learn almost any topic at an academic level, spending >> only my own time and energy, i feel moved and excited, i feel like knowledge >> and wisdom are becoming less elitarian, like people can finally open their >> minds (if they are willing to or not, is another question). > > Don't forget, though, that "only my own time and energy" is itself > quite contingent on economic realities. While, of course, free > access to knowledge is a great boon, it is not necessarily much use > to people who have to spend the vast majority of their time and > energy in order to make ends meet. <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org