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

~ Ernesto Priego

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)

~ Ernesto Priego

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.

The 2018 Altmetric Top 100 Outputs with ‘Comics’ as Keyword

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

I share the 2018 Top 100 research outputs with 'comics' as a keyword according to Altmetric.

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.

Openness, Transparency, Accountability: On New Ways of Being Scholarly

~ Ernesto Priego

On learning to interrogate our own privilege in order to build more transparent, accountable, fairer scholarly organisations.

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.