[Air-L] First Monday shutting down after 30 years

[Rakesh Biswas]

AI co-authors would automatically beget AI co-editors and AI peer reviewers.

Perhaps it's time for every human to experience being the last human
"editor in chief" before they are edited out and written off from their
academic flat lands!

Either way in our regular data collection and raw blog publications (peer
reviewed by our own large number of global team members), we have come to
terms with the fact that the humungous human TLDR data we generate daily is
largely fit for AI consumption and currently not fit for most humans who
are not a part of our participatory action research in real time!

best,

rb


On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, 07:43 Christopher Lueg via Air-L, <
air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

> I would also be interested in helping keep FM alive.
>
> The crazy increase in submissions and the associated scarcity of reviewers
> is a challenge that all journals have been dealing with but now we face an
> incoming avalanche of AI (co-)generated papers that exceed even the
> capacity of editors that have substantial institutional support.
>
> "Perhaps FM - the Sequel" could become a testbed for a different submission
> model!? Happy to share a few ideas.
>
> Best,
> Christopher
>
> Dr. sc.nat. Christopher P. Lueg
> Professor, School of Information Sciences
> University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
> https://ischool.illinois.edu/people/christopher-lueg
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/clueg/
> cplueg at illinois.edu
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM Ruth Tsuria via Air-L <
> air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
> > Would be happy to volunteer as well, and have experience acting as an
> > Editor-in-Chief
> >
> > Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts
> > Program Director, MA Communication and MS Professional Communication and
> > Digital Media Arts
> > College of Human Development, Culture, Media
> > Seton Hall University, NJ, USA
> >
> >
> > Keeping Women in Their Digital Place (2024, Penn State University Press)
> >
> > Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (Brill)
> >
> > For more publications: https://works.bepress.com/ruth-tsuria/
> >
> >
> >
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