Making Relationships Public

By jorinde, February 19, 2020

In ‘Governance and Scalability: Circles of trust and federated platforms‘, a previous blog by Cristina Ampatzidou and Irina Shapiro, editors/publishers of respectively Amateur Cities and Open Set, Platform 2 Platform and part of the ideas behind it have been very well introduced and explained, and also queried, specifically in connection with important overarching issues such [...]

Parasitic Collaboration

By Inte Gloerich, February 17, 2020

As a small, independent publisher, how do you win out in the attention economy? Platform 2 Platform is an exercise to see what happens when you decide to turn the game on its head. Instead of hoarding eyeballs, what happens when you give them away to those you trust and value?

Governance and Scalability: Circles of trust and federated platforms

By campatzidou, February 6, 2020

Independent publishing platforms are often small in size and human resources and usually not able to afford advertising and other forms of paid visibility to increase their audiences. In the framework of the Making Public project, we are prototyping a tool that creates relations between content items located in different publishing platforms, and provides recommendations to readers.

From Modularity to Relationality: Other Forms of Writing, Thinking & Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, January 27, 2020

Thought can be structured in different ways, just like the web itself – it can be centralized, decentralized or distributed. The way of structuring impacts thought itself, which is why such structures deserve more attention than they usually receive. We need to be working on our thoughts. In our research group we try to make [...]

Organizing Content for a Modular Digital Publication

By Kimmy Spreeuwenberg, January 6, 2020

Written by Pia Pol Introduction Making a digital modular publication is never easy. Modular publishing has its own set of requirements and challenges. Modularity on the backend of projects is a much accepted and preferred strategy. Cutting the work up in blocks makes for a clear and easier to handle workflow. But what happens if [...]

The Oxymoron of the Academic Zine

By Silvio Lorusso, December 10, 2019

Can there be such a thing as an “academic zine”? The very expression sounds like an oxymoron: whereas the academic qualifier came to suggest a hierarchical power structure; a linear, waterfall-like knowledge production process, an indifference towards the way in which form shapes content and can be content, or, more precisely, the standardization and crystallization [...]

Re-inventing the afterlife of periodicals through the zine-format

By arjensuijker, December 5, 2019

The work done in the group focusing on periodicals publications has taken inspiration from the notion of the ‘parasitic zine’, as was presented on the Urgent Publishing conference by Marc van Elburg (see the report here and the video recording here). Read up on further plans and ideas below. Our current goal is to make [...]

New Formats for Online and Hybrid Quality Content: Best Practices /end

By Miriam Rasch, July 9, 2019

The last in our series reviewing best practices for publishing research information for a broad audience focuses on formats. Which experimental formats pushing quality are noteworthy? Of course, this is an open question which demands more consideration than just a short blogpost, so please consider the post as a collection of some general notes and [...]

Chants from the Urgent Publishing Survey

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, July 3, 2019

Where do we read? On the phone! What do we read? Specific recommendations! How much do we read? An hour per day! How do we read? Together <3 On the occasion of the conference Urgent Publishing: New Strategies in Post-Truth Times, the Institute for Network Cultures set up the Urgent Publishing Survey. In this report, [...]

Please fill out the Urgent Publishing Survey

By Sepp Eckenhaussen, June 25, 2019

What kind of reading experiences do you look for? What kind of content do you read and where do you find it? Which (digital) tools, formats and forms of reading interest you? Insight in your preferences will help cultural publishers to keep their publishing urgent and experimental. Please help the Making Public-consortium by anonymously filling out [...]