Category: Scraps

This category collects assorted brief writings and other work. Click on the titles to read each post.

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

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

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

~ Ernesto Priego

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

~ Ernesto Priego

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

~ Ernesto Priego

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)

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

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

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

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.