History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025 History of Media Studies Newsletter October 2025 Welcome to the 53rd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...

The October History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! buttondown.email/hms/archive/...

History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025 History of Media Studies Newsletter August 2025 Welcome to the 52nd edition of the History of Media Studies Newsletter. The monthly email, assembled by Dave...

The August History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs!

Open Position: Community Engagement Lead (full time) at Open Book Collective Looking for a colleague interested in helping the Open Book Collective advocate for and deliver a more sustainable and equitable future for Open Access book publishing

🚨 OBC is hiring! We are looking to appoint a Community Engagement Lead to support our outreach work. The role would suit someone passionate about delivering a fairer, sustainable future for #OAbooks. Deadline August 17th. Please spread the word! openbookcollective.pubpub.org/pub/open-pos...

An open letter of resignation from myself and many other book series editors at Amsterdam University Press, following its recent acquisition by the notoriously exploitative academic publishing conglomerate Taylor & Francis.

New open access book edited by Jens Eder, Britta Hartmann and Chris Tedjasukmana! Also available for purchase for libraries, etc. intellectdiscover.com/content/book...

Friends, please share!

Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...

This must have been a difficult decision for those involved, but brave it is.
Scholars that have been instrumental in shaping the field of film and media studies, and having longstanding relations with the press, resign from being series editors after the buy-out.

mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850

Grant for strengthening collaboration between Dutch university open access publishers | Open Science NL The Steering Board of Open Science NL has decided to award a €300,000 grant to the network of institutional open access publishers in the Netherlands, known as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs...

Very happy to announce this major boost for the Netherlands University Presses #NUPs network.

The aim of this @opensciencenl.bsky.social funding is to strengthen collaboration and coordination, and promote inclusive (e.g. diamond) #openaccess models.

👉 www.openscience.nl/en/news/gran...

A diamond being held between a pair of silver tweezers so that it can be examined, over a plain white surface.

NEW ARTICLE: 'How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?'

Published today in Katina Magazine, and written by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @ivamz.bsky.social, Vanessa Proudman, Ursula Rabar, and @nielsstern.bsky.social -- find out more here:

openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/07/09/h...

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

A Thread.

At the Open Library of Humanities, we’re proud to stand alongside UK library directors on shared initiatives like the Open Journals Collective (@ojcollective.bsky.social). We believe research should serve communities, not corporate shareholders. (2/2)

What a lovely review of Killer Fandom in the International Journal of Communication (OA of course), thank you so much! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc
#OABooks #FanStudies

Here we have @openingthefuture.bsky.social and @thoth-metadata.bsky.social y.social modelling the remarkably well adorned @copim.bsky.social community stand at D07! Come and talk to us about all things community-led, Diamond open access books #bibliocon25 :)

Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now, for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review.

limn.press/issue/climat...

Really happy to share the prize nominations for OBP authors today! The authors are brilliant and it's fantastic to see an independent #OpenAccess press listed alongside university press colleagues for these awards.

#OAbooks

Consider submitting a book proposal to mediastudies.press, in our annual proposal window (June 1 to July 31). We are a nonprofit, no-fee, scholarled publisher supported by libraries https://www.mediastudies.press/proposals

New open access books published in 2025 in my book series Critical, Digital and Social Media Studies: Vincent Mosco: Critical Communication: A Memoir, doi.org/10.16997/boo...

CFP Media Theory at the Coach House Inaugural Conference  November 7-8, 2025 Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto “Media theory seems eclipsed by the ubiquity of its objects” (…

The Media Theory journal is organising its inaugural conference. November 7-8, 2025 at the Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto.
The cfp is here: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/

mediastudies.press

mediastudies.press has opened its annual proposal window for its 4 series
Media Manifold
www.mediastudies.press/media-manifo...
Public Domain
www.mediastudies.press/public-domai...
Open Reader
www.mediastudies.press/open-reader-...
History of Media Studies
www.mediastudies.press/history-of-m...

🎉A huge congratulations to Stefan Ekman, author of URBAN FANTASY, on the being name a finalist in the non-fiction category of the Locus Awards!!🎉 It's #OpenAccess so start reading here: services.publishing.umich.edu/Books/U/Urba...

Join me for a Publishing How-To Roundtable on May 16 at 1pm ET! We'll be talking about innovative ways to share your scholarly ideas and offer advice on building communities of practice around publishing. Attendance is capped at 100, so grab a spot asap: forms.gle/cHLd1yrMYpwt...

50 Years of Media at Westminster - CAMRI

22-23 May. Histories, Presents & Futures of Media & Communication
camri.ac.uk/50-years-of-...

(Marking 50yrs of Media at Westminster/Polytechnic of Central London)

Keynotes:
Payal Arora
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social
Lina Dencik @linadencik.bsky.social
Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social

Any and all interested in book typesetting, please join our ninth ScholarLed Salon (next Thursday), where member presses gather for informal sharing around a rotating cast of topics—this time on typesetting. May 8, 17:00 CEST/16:00 BST/11am EDT/8am PDT https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86585035021?pwd=l50a1

We’re excited to announce that a Spanish translation of Gary Hall’s Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence will be published by Ediciones mimesis next year:

www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

edicionesmimesis.cl

Opening the Future, Author Profile: Daniel Silva Copim catch up with author Daniel Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) about his book "Empire Found", which was published OA by Liverpool University Press thanks to Opening the Future

NEW author profile 📣

We catch up with Daniel Silva (Associate Professor, Middlebury College) about his #book "Empire Found"

Published #OpenAccess by @livunipress.bsky.social in 2022 thanks to @openingthefuture.bsky.social 🤝

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YouTube video by Open Book Collective Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books

1/4 Hear from librarians, scholars, OA publishers, and open infrastructure providers about Open Book Collective in action: A fair and sustainable future for books: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc_M... @punctumbooks.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social

The April History of Media Studies newsletter is out, with updates about the journal, new bibliography additions, and CFPs! https://buttondown.email/hms/archive/history-of-media-studies-newsletter-april-2025

A photograph of the book Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century on a table with a dark blue tablecloth

A photograph of a display table with a dark blue tablecloth and various leaflets, books and bookmarks, as well as a Scottish Universities Press pull up banner

A photograph of display table with a dark blue tablecloth, a copy of the book Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century and some flyers and bookmarks

We are all set up at @uofgarc.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of our second book, Digital editing and publishing in the twenty-first century!

Come and visit us! @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Download the book for free here: doi.org/10.62637/sup...

Happy BIRTHDAY to PUNCTUM!

WE'RE 14 & still TWEEN-ing it! punctum books, a scholar-led & queer-led press, was founded on April 1, 2011 and we’ve been fighting for the weird & #OpenAccess in scholarly publishing ever since.

Help us celebrate 🎉🥳🍾by becoming a subscriber!

punctumbooks.com/support/

📚 New member book! "Media and Propaganda in an Age of Disinformation", edited by IAMCR members Nelson Ribeiro and Barbie Zelizer. This collection argues for the centrality of propaganda in discussions about the contemporary media landscape and its informational ecosystems. iamcr.org/books-ribeir...