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Open Access: Towards Fairer Access to Research
Practical and sustainable ways of increasing access to scholarly materials will require a more thorough transformation of the entire academic landscape, which includes publication, assessment and promotion. This article.emphasises that ultimately, open access advocates are fighting for the right of scholars at all career stages to ensure their work has more prospects of getting read, cited and ‘reused’
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Beyond [Adobe] Flash™: Flash: Hans Bordahl’s and David Farley’s Online Comics as Short Digital Narratives
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WWW
This chapter provides a critical introduction to the past, present and future of the World Wide Web as an information resource
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Reflection on Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Case Studies of Emerging Practice
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On Cultural Materialism, Comics and Digital Media
In 1936, Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) accounted for the paradigm shift that mechanical reproduction meant for art and politics. For Benjamin, technological change was not merely a sign of uncomplicated, forward-thinking progress; it meant a profound transformation of the realm of human experience. In this account of the era Benjamin witnessed, the German philosopher and collector was also unknowingly predicting a time he personally would not experience: four decades later, these descriptions of his time are illuminating the reality of the present. Benjamin wrote that ‘the cathedral leaves its locale to be received in the studio of a lover of art; the choral production, performed in an auditorium or in the open air, resounds in the drawing room’, but he was not describing digital 3D imaging, Wikipedia, YouTube or Google; he was writing about film photography and the phonograph, forms of technology many now consider ‘obsolete’. The fact we can identify that sense of wonder at technology’s ability to make the absent present and vice versa proves Benjamin’s point: that there is a ‘logic of form’ in art and technology, or, in other words, that the future and the present are also contained in the past, as new technologies and art forms do not simply supersede present and anterior ones, but depend on them. Benjamin's work has proven so influential because, unlike the digital media ‘pundits’ of today, he did not predict the future, but analysed the present
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Recommendations for University Module Evaluation Policies
This paper discusses the limitations of University Module Evaluation processes and shares a series of recommendations that could improve their design and implementation. The paper concludes that regardless of staff gender, age, academic position or ethnic background, no metric or quantitative indicator should be used without thoughtful, qualitative social and organisational context awareness and unconscious bias awareness. The paper concludes there is a need to eliminate the use of Module Evaluation metrics in appointment and promotion considerations
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Popping Up: Cities and Comics as Common Place
London is haunted by constant apparitions of the ghosts of comics that never wer
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My Life with Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz; introduction by M. Thomas Inge (2010)
A review of My Life with Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz; introduction by M. Thomas Inge (2010) Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 193 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60473-448-5, Hardback, $25.0
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Riad Sattouf's The Arab of the Future: A Graphic Ethnology of Solitude (or Hope)
This article offers a reading of Riad Sattouf's graphic novel The Arab of the Future (Two Roads, London, UK, 2016). Following the theoretical vocabulary of Marc Augé (1992), the book is set in the context of the rise of the autobiographical graphic novel and current social and political attitudes to immigration and the Arab world. The article refers to ethnology in relation to The Arab of the Future not as a regressive reference to anthropology as a colonialist or even orientalist enterprise, but as an autobiography where human movement from country to country and culture to culture is told from the perspective point of view of, and focusing on, the mixed-ethnicity, multilingual immigrant. By looking at how specific passages of the book employ discoursive strategies that correlate to some of Augé's concepts, the article posits that The Arab of the Future is an example of that 'ethnology of the future' that Augé imagined as full of contradictions
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The Comics Page: Scholarly Books Briefly Noted (2017–2018)
This article documents a selection of scholarly books received by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during the 2017–2018 editorial year and notes them briefly, collating their metadata and publisher’s blurbs, as well as hyperlinks to the respective publisher’s web pages for each book. This round-up seeks to promote awareness of these recent publications within comics scholarship, and to encourage their acquisition by academic libraries, academic review and, if appropriate, inclusion in syllabi
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