Experimental Publishing Compendium

Book

Living Books About Life

Typology category

remixed

URL

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/series/liquid-books/

Experimental aspects:

This book series published by Open Humanities Press ‘repackaged’ previously published open access content into curated edited collections. The books in this series are ‘living’ in the sense that they are ‘open to ongoing collaborative processes of writing, editing, updating, remixing and commenting by readers’.

Tools

MediaWiki

Collaboration and publishing platform used to run Wikipedia. Easily adaptable to monograph publishing and can incorporate a range of rich digital...

Practices

Collaborative writing

Academic publishing and reward structures are set up to reproduce individualised, liberal humanist forms of authorship. Experiments with more...

Remixing

Remix includes creating derivatives of 'original' works through reuse, adaptation, transformation, and modification. Remix practices in...

Rewriting

Rewriting involves the practice of re-envisioning an already existing text without (necessarily) intervening into the original source text. It...