Publication formats: Maybe you need do decide what side you're on, GenAI or Zine?

As part of digital infrastructure research, we are exploring alternative forms to publish academic work. Currently and in different iterations: zines (from “magazine”). It really makes a difference to think about knowledge production in an open, playful format. Just make things. For me, zines represent the internet culture of the 1990s and early 2000s. It’s hacky, a bit weird, but above all accessible to everyone. People use simple formats and dare to do something, especially design-wise.

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A situated lexicon of #virtuality: We have written a volume on an underappreciated term

It was a lot of fun (and work) to get this ready as a co-editor. It was also a risky adventure, a different way of representing knowledge. Get the open access version very soon (download incoming). www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-837… We’ll be sharing the concept and some artwork during today’s evening event,you can grab the Zoom link here. Later we will also publish videos of the exhibition. We we also freakish enough to write (and review) this volume entirely through Markdown (#Obsidian) text files, leaving Microsoft Office and others behind.

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