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Reading Project: A Collaborative Analysis of William Poundstone's Project for Tachistoscope {Bottomless Pit}

2015, Jessica Pressman, Mark C. Marino, and Jeremy Douglass

Reading Project had an online companion to the print book built in ACLS Workbench for cloning, forking, and building upon the original text.

ACLS Workbench

A fork of Scalar that promoted scholarly collaboration by allowing scholars to "create, join, or clone online arguments enhanced with multimedia content".

(No longer maintained)

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

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remixthebook

2011, Mark Amerika

The remixthebook.com website is the online hub for the digital remixes of many of the theories generated in the print book and features the...

Remixing

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

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Rhythm Science

2004, Paul D. Miller

Miller’s textual provocations are designed for maximum visual and tactile seduction by the international studio COMA (Cornelia Blatter and...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World

2022, Massimo Riva

Through six case histories and eight interactive simulations, Massimo Riva explores themes of virtual travel, social surveillance, and utopian...

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks

2021, Jeffrey Layne Blevins and James Jaehoon Lee

The open access version of this book contains interactive data visualizations created by the University of Cincinnati Libraries Digital...

Manifold

Large-scale publishing platform for publishing text and accompanying digital resources. Able to incorporate a range of rich digital media. Strong...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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Socrates in the labyrinth: Hypertext, Argument, Philosophy

1994, David Kolb

Socrates in the Labyrinth is a wide-ranging exploration of the relationships between hypertext, thought, and argument. Does hypertext present...

Storyspace

Storyspace is a tool for complex, interlinked narrative, both fiction and nonfiction. Twenty years ago, the original Storyspace ushered in the era...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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cover for Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading

Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading

2014, Christopher P. Long

Recently, I have been working on two performative publications. The first, my enhanced digital book to be published by Cambridge University...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

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Speculate This!

2013, Uncertain Commons

As a collaborative work coauthored by a group of anonymous scholars, Speculate This! argues for and embodies affirmative speculation. A short,...

Collaborative writing

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

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Surfacing

2016, Nicole Starosielski, Erik Loyer, and Shane Brennan

Experimental book that uses Scalar as the backend with Scalar's API feeding a custom UI. In Surfacing, you are a signal traveling across the...

Scalar

Enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with text in a variety of ways with minimal technical expertise required....

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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Tendencias recientes en las políticas científicas de ciencia abierta y acceso abierto en Iberoamérica

2020, Dominique Babini and Laura Rovelli

Tendencias recientes en las políticas científicas de ciencia abierta y acceso abierto en Iberoamérica is the first book in CLACSO´s...

Referencing

Referencing, citing, crediting, and acknowledging are crucial practices to make connections to previous research, to support argumentation, and to...

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The Academic Book of the Future

2016, Rebecca E. Lyons, Samantha J. Rayner

This innovative new digital format presents subjects in the form of a ‘living book’ with articles of various types, in a non-linear thematic...

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The CryptoParty Handbook

2013, CryptoParty

A handbook of computer and internet security and a practical guide for CryptoParties. Created as a GitHub repository by forking two existing...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Forking

Forking is a form of computational publishing that involves creating a derivative version of a previously published text or book to make revisions...

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The Ethnographic Case

2017, Emily Yates-Doerr and Christine Labuski

The Ethnographic Case is an experimental, online, Open Access book, that invites readers to interact with it in a process of post-publication...

CommentPress

CommentPress is an open source theme and plugin for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph-by-paragraph,...

Annotating

Annotations, notes scribbled in the margins or digitally overlain, spin out from a source text, adding layers of meaning, interpretations,...

Reviewing

Evaluation of research by the scholarly community is essential to conducting and publishing research. In response to changing publication formats...

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The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies

2022, Darren Wershler, Lori Emerson, and Jussi Parikka

Manifold

Large-scale publishing platform for publishing text and accompanying digital resources. Able to incorporate a range of rich digital media. Strong...

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

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The Life of Nuns: Love, Politics, and Religion in Medieval German Convents

2024, Henrike Lähnemann and Eva Schlotheuber

An open access scholarly book recorded and released as an open access audiobook version.

Listening

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The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects

2008, Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, and Jerome Angel

Fiore described The Medium is the Massage as having ‘no “original” manuscript. The idea was to select some of McLuhan’s ideas from previous...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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The Telekommunist Manifesto

2010, Dmytri Kleiner

Published under a Peer Production License as a model for a copyfarleft license.

Licensing

Copyright licensing determines the rights for the publication, distribution, and use of research on a spectrum from completely closed fully...

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The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

2019, The Turing Way Community

The Turing Way is an open source community-driven guide to reproducible, ethical, inclusive and collaborative data science. Its goal is to...

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Netlify

Publish incredibly high performance websites and applications right from GitHub. The Netlify platform connects your repositories to an all-in-one...

Collaborative writing

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

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Versioning

Versioning (also known as processual, iterative, or continuous publishing), as a concept and practice used within academic research and...

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Volumetric Regimes: material cultures of quantified presence

2022, Jara Rocha and Femke Snelting

Open Humanities Press book licensed under the CC4r copyleft license.

Licensing

Copyright licensing determines the rights for the publication, distribution, and use of research on a spectrum from completely closed fully...

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Writing Machines

2002, N. Katherine Hayles

Tracing a journey from the 1950s through the 1990s, N. Katherine Hayles uses the autobiographical persona of Kaye to explore how literature has...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...

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