[Air-L] New book: Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism

[Jodi Schneider]

It could be worth crowdsourcing historical success in getting publishers to
agree to open licenses. (For instance Dariusz' tidbit of MIT Press.) I'll
add that Morgan & Claypool is more open than some (though that publisher is
not relevant to all AoIR-related fields).

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Dariusz Jemielniak <
dariusz.jemielniak at fulbrightmail.org> wrote:

> they definitely "should" in an ideal world - when I was going to publish
> "Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia", I negotiated long and hard
> with Stanford University Press to use GPL at least some time after the
> publication... To no avail. This is one of the reasons why I'm going to go
> with MIT Press as my first choice, then next time I have a book to publish.
> Back then, I was time-pressed to go with any prime publisher :(
>
> dj
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 3:26 PM, Avner Kantor <avnerkantor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Congratiolations!
> >
> > I wonder if books about Wikipedia should be free and open under the terms
> > of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CCBYSA> (CC-BY-SA) like all
> > Wikipedia's articles...
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Avner
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Arwid Lund <arwid.lund at abm.uu.se>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > This could be of interest to some of you.
> > >
> > > My book Wikipedia, Work and Capitalism (Palgrave Macmillan) has finally
> > > been published online (the hardcover will be out within weeks). It
> > situates
> > > Wikipedia and peer production within a Marxist perspective on cognitive
> > > capitalism, and uses ideology analysis to study the Wikipedians'
> > > perceptions of their own activities as well as their understanding of
> the
> > > project's relation to capitalism.
> > >
> > > If it sounds interesting you can have a look here:
> > > http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319506890?wt_mc=
> > > ThirdParty.SpringerLink.3.EPR653.About_eBook#
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Arwid Lund
> > >
> > > Arwid Lund
> > > PhD in Information Studies
> > > Department of ALM, Uppsala University
> > > Email: arwid.lund at abm.uu.se
> > >
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> _________________________________
> check out my ethnography of Wikipedia:
> Jemielniak, Dariusz (2014) Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia,
> Stanford: Stanford University Press
> http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
>
> Reviews:
> Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
> Pacific Standard:
> http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
> Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
> Inside HigherED:
> *https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/
> common-knowledge-jemielniak-wikipeda
> <https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/
> common-knowledge-jemielniak-wikipeda>*
> The Wikipedian:
> http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
>
> Dariusz Jemielniak, Ph.D.
> Professor of Management
> Chair of International Management Department
> head of the Center for Research on Organizations and Workplaces (CROW)
> Kozminski University
> http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl
> New Research on Digital Societies (NeRDS) group:
> http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl  <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl>
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