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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The September History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...

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Erratum Press @erratumpress.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ERRATUM is pleased to announce it has joined ScholarLed, a consortium of open access book publishers organised around a commitment to opening up research to diverse readerships and resisting the marketization of academic knowledge production. scholarled.org @scholarled.bsky.social

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The recording of Gary Hall’s discussion of Defund Culture for Breaking Culture Live is now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QbY... Defund Culture: A Radical Proposal is available OA on a CC4r basis in a variety of formats from medistudies.press: www.mediastudies.press/defund-cultu...

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Breaking Culture Live - Gary Hall: Defund Culture

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 13/03/2026

In Communication, we don't have many diamond open access journals. One is History of Media Studies, published by @mediastudiespress.bsky.social. The journal is quite international. It includes book reviews, opinion pieces, & critical perspectives. Will follow more closely! hms.mediastudies.press

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 13/03/2026

@mediastudiespress.bsky.social has published an open-access book on sociologist Erving Goffman. Below is a summary by David Park, which really makes me want to read the book. Check it out and download for free here: www.mediastudies.press/from-erving-...

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Gary Hall, who recently published Defund Culture with mediastudies.press, appeared on the Minor Compositions podcast to talk about the book and radical publishing @Gary Hall www.mediastudies.press/pub/20...

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Defund Culture Appears on Minor Compositions

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The March History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

📣 Join authors, publishers, librarians, and infrastructure developers to explore the future of community-led open access books Get your ticket now! 🎟️ 🗓️ 26–27 February 2026 📍 Loughborough University | London and online 🔗 buff.ly/sv3I13M #CopimConference

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🚨 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...

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Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective

Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10/07/2025

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...

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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

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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members

It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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...

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Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL

The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

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Open Access Books Network @oabooksnetwork.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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...

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Bisexual Kaiju @bisexualkaiju.myatproto.social · 05/07/2025

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · 07/07/2025

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)

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Judith Fathallah @judithfathallah.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

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

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International Journal of Communication

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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 :)

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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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...

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Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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 www.mediastudies.press/proposals

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Christian Fuchs @fuchschristian.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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...

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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/

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Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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...

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Lever Press @leverpress.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🎉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...

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Urban Fantasy

Urban fantasy, the genre of fantastic literature in which magic and monsters meet modern society, is fairly young but has old roots. Stefan Ekman’s book, Urban Fantasy: Exploring Modernity through Mag...

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Radish Press a.k.a Zoe Wake Hyde @radishpress.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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...

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Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

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

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50 Years of Media at Westminster - CAMRI

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ScholarLed @scholarled.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

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 us02web.zoom.us/j/86585035021?pwd=l…

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Open Humanities Press @openhumanities.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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Open Humanities Press– Masked Media

A scholar led open access publishing collective

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

1/4 Hear from librarians, scholars, OA publishers, and open infrastructure providers about Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_M... @punctumbooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

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Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books

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mediastudiespress.bsky.social @mediastudiespress.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

The April History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/histor…

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Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We are all set up at @uofgarc.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of our second book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century! Come and visit us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social Download the book for free here: doi.org/10.62637/sup...

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punctum 🌈 books: spontaneous acts of scholarly combustion @punctumbooks.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM! WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since. Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber! punctumbooks.com/support/

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IAMCR @iamcr.org · 02/04/2025

📚 New member book! "Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation", edited by IAMCR members Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer. This collection argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. iamcr.org/books-ribeir...

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Open Book Collective @openbookcollective.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

1/4 Following a busy event at #UKSG2025, we are delighted to be able to announce that @sidestone.bsky.social are the latest press to join the Open Book Collective! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/ye52vnsy/

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Sidestone Press Joins the Open Book Collective

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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 01/04/2025

We've added a couple of experimental publishing tools to @copim.bsky.social's Experimental Publishing Compendium: epublius (compendium.copim.ac.uk/tools/189) which generates a HTML site from an ePub and the Electric Zine Maker (compendium.copim.ac.uk/tools/188) which can be used to design zines.

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Experimental Publishing Compendium

The Experimental Publishing Compendium is a guide for scholars, publishers, librarians, and artists who want to experiment with the form of scholarly books.

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LSE Press @lsepress.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Great to see the Open Journals Collective launched in this @lseimpactblog.bsky.social blog - forging an alternative model for scaling open access to journal publications. 👏 @theblochian.bsky.social #OpenAccess #JournalPublishing

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Joe Deville @joedeville.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Exciting to see this up and running. At the @openbookcollective.bsky.social we have been in close conversation with Caroline and OJC colleagues and hope to collaborate as these two distinct but allied initiatives grow

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Open Institutional Publishing Association @oipassoc.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

At UKSG? Come visit us at stall 78! We have our brand new members catalogue plus loads of books published by our members! @uksg.bsky.social #UKSG2025

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