Digitize this book! : the politics of new media, or why we need open access now

In the sciences, the merits and ramifications of open access--the electronic publishing model that gives readers free, irrevocable, worldwide, and perpetual access to research--have been vigorously debated. Open access is now increasingly proposed as a valid means of both disseminating knowledge and career advancement. In Digitize This Book! Gary Hall presents a timely and ambitious polemic on the potential that open access publishing has to transform both "papercentric" humanities scholarship and the institution of the university itself.

• Acknowledgments p. vii
• Introduction: Another University Is Possible p. 1
• Metadata I Notes on Creating Critical Computer Media p. 19
• I Internethics
• 1 Why All Academic Research and Scholarship Should Be Made Available in Online Open-Access Archives-Now! p. 39
• 2 Judgment and Responsibility in the Wikipedia Era p. 55
• Metadata II Print This! p. 80
• 3 IT, Again; or, How to Build an Ethical Institution p. 88
• II Hyperpolitics
• 4 Antipolitics and the Internet p. 105
• Metadata III The Specificity of New Media p. 151
• 5 HyperCyberDemocracy p. 167
• Conclusion: Next-Generation Cultural Studies? p. 187
• Metadata IV The Singularity of New Media p. 208
• Notes p. 217
• Bibliography p. 271
• Index p. 292