Pub Date : 2015-09-01DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0019.203
L. Gourlay
The study of academic reading and writing has moved away from a predominantly cognitive focus towards one which views academic meaning-making as a complex set of socially-situated practices, (in work associated with the research fields of new literacy studies and multimodality). These fields of study acknowledge that literacy practices enrol social actors in (reflexive) processes of meaning- making and constitution of subjectivities via a range of semiotic resources, also recognising that these practices take place in increasingly multimodal contexts, additionally involving (complex processes concerning communication across the digital and the analogue). However, the agentive role of nonhuman actors and artefacts in these processes has received less attention in the literature. In particular, little research has been conducted into the embodied and material practices of meaning-making in contexts characterised by the presence of complex combinations of digital and print texts and artefacts. This paper will argue that within the contemporary university, meaning-making and textual practices have become saturated by digital mediation; raising research questions around the resultant role of nonhuman actors in the form of objects such as laptops, notebooks, mobile phones and books in the formation of texts, and also in the construction of student subjectivities. Drawing on posthuman and actor-network theories, this paper will report on a funded project investigating the day-to-day embodied and textual practices of 12 adult postgraduate students over a six month period, using multimodal journalling and in-depth case study interviews. The analysis will focus specifically on the ways in which mobile devices, screens and print literacy artefacts were variously enrolled in a complex set of posthuman semiotic practices. I will argue for the utility of Hayle’s (1999) notion of the posthuman and Latour’s (2005) concept of nonhuman actor as mediator in the analysis. Particular attention will be paid to the agentive roles these nonhuman actors play in the constitution /reconstitution of texts in settings where semiotic practices are distributed across multiple domains of practice such as university, public transport and home, and also across multiple networked devices and technologies of inscription. Illustrating these points with textual data, images and drawings, it will explore in particular the transcontextual boundary of digital / print and how objects act not only to create new assemblages – complex and evolving networks of human and nonhuman actors - but also to enable transitions across contextual boundaries, leading to blurring of binaries around authorship, presence and persistence of text.
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Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.306
Marcus A. Banks
{"title":"Immediate Open Access in the Biosciences: Prospects and Possibilities","authors":"Marcus A. Banks","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.306","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.306","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.307
Thomas L. Reinsfelder
{"title":"Donations as a Source of Income for Open Access Journals: An Option To Consider?","authors":"Thomas L. Reinsfelder","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.307","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.310
A. McCollough
{"title":"Book Review: Martin Paul Eve. Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies, and the Future","authors":"A. McCollough","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.310","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.304
A. Zaytsev
{"title":"HathiTrust and a Mission for Accessibility","authors":"A. Zaytsev","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.304","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.302
H. McGregor, Kevin M. Guthrie
{"title":"Delivering Impact of Scholarly Information: Is Access Enough?","authors":"H. McGregor, Kevin M. Guthrie","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.302","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.302","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.308
K. McNaught
{"title":"The Changing Publication Practices in Academia: Inherent Uses and Issues in Open Access and Online Publishing and the Rise of Fraudulent Publications","authors":"K. McNaught","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.308","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.308","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2015-06-17DOI: 10.3998/3336451.0018.309
D. O'Donnell, Heather Hobma, S. Cowan, Gillian Ayers, Jessica Bay, M. Swanepoel, Wendy Merkley, Kelaine Devine, Emma Dering, I. Genee
{"title":"Aligning open access publications with the research and teaching missions of the public university: the case of the Lethbridge Journal Incubator (If 'if's and 'and's were pots and pans)","authors":"D. O'Donnell, Heather Hobma, S. Cowan, Gillian Ayers, Jessica Bay, M. Swanepoel, Wendy Merkley, Kelaine Devine, Emma Dering, I. Genee","doi":"10.3998/3336451.0018.309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3998/3336451.0018.309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Electronic Publishing","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70214339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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