Digital Publishing Today
Monday 26 November, 2012
6:30pm, $0
The Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, Floor 9 (Skylight Room)
What are the radical possibilities of open access publishing? This panel will bring together a number of scholars who have published online to consider how university presses are either facilitating or impeding efforts by academics to explore new forms of cultural production and media activism unleashed by movements such as Occupy Wall Street. Join us to explore these questions and to develop new strategies and models for contemporary academic publication.
Ashley Dawson is professor of English at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center. His work examines the literature of migration, including movement from postcolonial nations such as Jamaica and Nigeria to the former imperial center and from rural areas to mega-cities of the global South like Lagos and Mumbai. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, and co-editor of Democracy, the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice; Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus; and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism. At present Dawson is at work on a book about urban culture and imperialism and on a history of twentieth-century British literature. He is currently web co-editor of the journal Social Text.
Matthew K. Gold is assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also serves as advisor to the provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives. His teaching and research interests center on the digital humanities, digital writing and rhetoric, open-source pedagogy, and new-media studies. He is the editor of the collection Debates in the Digital Humanities. Recent projects include “Looking for Whitman,†a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy.
Michael Mandiberg is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and scholar. He creates conceptual art projects, design objects, and publications that explore environmentalism, systems of exchange, pedagogy, software art, collaboration, Free Culture, and appropriation. He sold all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, made perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and created Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. He is co-author of Digital Foundations and Collaborative Futures, and the editor of The Social Media Reader. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Transmediale. Mandiberg is currently director of the the New York Arts Practicum, associate professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, and a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Tavia Nyong’o writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies, queer studies, cultural theory, and cultural history. He is the author of the book The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and has published articles on punk, disco, viral media, the African diaspora, film, and performance art in venues such as Radical History Review, Criticism, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Women Studies Quarterly, The Nation, and n+1. He is on the editorial collective of the journal Social Text.
Ashley Dawson is professor of English at the College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center. His work examines the literature of migration, including movement from postcolonial nations such as Jamaica and Nigeria to the former imperial center and from rural areas to mega-cities of the global South like Lagos and Mumbai. He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain, and co-editor of Democracy, the State, and the Struggle for Global Justice; Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus; and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism. At present Dawson is at work on a book about urban culture and imperialism and on a history of twentieth-century British literature. He is currently web co-editor of the journal Social Text.
Matthew K. Gold is assistant professor of English at New York City College of Technology. He is a faculty member in the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Doctoral Certificate Program at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he also serves as advisor to the provost for Master’s Programs and Digital Initiatives. His teaching and research interests center on the digital humanities, digital writing and rhetoric, open-source pedagogy, and new-media studies. He is the editor of the collection Debates in the Digital Humanities. Recent projects include “Looking for Whitman,†a multi-campus experiment in digital pedagogy.
Michael Mandiberg is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and scholar. He creates conceptual art projects, design objects, and publications that explore environmentalism, systems of exchange, pedagogy, software art, collaboration, Free Culture, and appropriation. He sold all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, made perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and created Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. He is co-author of Digital Foundations and Collaborative Futures, and the editor of The Social Media Reader. His work has been exhibited at the New Museum, Ars Electronica, ZKM, and Transmediale. Mandiberg is currently director of the the New York Arts Practicum, associate professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, and a member of the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Tavia Nyong’o writes, researches, and teaches critical black studies, queer studies, cultural theory, and cultural history. He is the author of the book The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory and has published articles on punk, disco, viral media, the African diaspora, film, and performance art in venues such as Radical History Review, Criticism, TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies, Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, Women Studies Quarterly, The Nation, and n+1. He is on the editorial collective of the journal Social Text.