Parabeln der Pflege: new translation of Parables of Care makes comic about dementia care available to German-speaking audiences

A new translation of Parables of Care (2017) makes comic about creative responses to dementia care available to German speaking audiences

La “escucha” del deejay – para Manrico Montero (enero del 2002 para Urbe 01)

I have been reorganising hard drives and the like and came across this article I wrote on 28 January 2002, in Mexico City, for Mexican electronic music and culture magazine Urbe 01.

How ‘Alternative’ are Altmetrics? Online Attention to Scholarly Outputs and the Hegemony of the Global North

Are so-called 'alternative' or 'article-level' metrics documenting attention to outputs from publishers, access types, funders, insitutitons and countries traditionally invisible via traditional citation metrics? I share some data resulting from text analysis I conducted on some of the metadata included in the complete Altmetric 2018 raw dataset.

HCID Research Seminar: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID

Today I will give a talk as part of the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design's HCID Research Seminar series: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID.

Convegno di studi: Ricerca scientifica, monopoli della conoscenza e Digital Humanities – Rome

I will be doing an express trip to Rome on Wednesday 24th October 2018 to participate in this event discussing oligopolies of knowledge production.

New Publication: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid

This week saw the publication of a new journal article coauthored by Peter Wilkins and yours truly: Priego, E. & Wilkins, P., (2018). The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. 8, p.16. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/cg.133

Documentary Film Screening: Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (2018)

We invite you to a free and public screening of the documentary film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (dir. and prod. Jason Schmitt, 2018) at City, University of London, on Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 17:30.

On Elsevier and the Open Science Monitor

A formal complaint to the European Ombudsman has been submitted about the recent announcement that Elsevier, a scholarly publisher and data analytics provider, has been subcontracted to monitor the future progress of Open Science in Europe. You are invited to consider signing it too.