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The December History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
📣 We’re proud to announce the publication of Postcards, Translators and #Esperanto Pioneers: An Alternative #History of International #Communication, a fascinating new #OpenAccess book published in association with @ihr.bsky.social.
uolpress.co.uk/book/postcar...
#Skystorians @sas-news.bsky.social
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🗓️ 26–27 February 2026
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The November History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
📢 Today we've published the latest #OpenAccess title in our popular #NewHistoricalPerspectives series with @ihr.bsky.social & @royalhistsoc.org:
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 by @grod.bsky.social!
Read it now:
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti... #History
The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...
The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!
🚨 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...
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.
New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...
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...
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
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...
A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.
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:
openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...
Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!
A Thread.
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)
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
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 :)
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.
limn.press/issue/climat...
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.
#OAbooks
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 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...
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/
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...
🎉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...
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...
22-23 May. Histories, Presents & Futures of Media & Communication
camri.ac.uk/50-years-of-...
(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
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
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...
edicionesmimesis.cl
