The 2018 Comics Grid year in review.

I share the 2018 Top 100 research outputs with ‘comics’ as a keyword according to Altmetric.

A re so-called ‘alternative’ metrics documenting attention to outputs from publishers, access types, funders, insitutitons and countries usually invisible via traditional citation metrics?  Another way to put it is, can altmetrics contribute to higher visibility of outputs usually excluded from mainstream metrication?

Today I will give a talk as part of the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design’s HCID Research Seminar series: The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. Implications for HCID.

I will be doing an express trip to Rome on Wednesday 24th October 2018 to participate in this event discussing oligopolies of knowledge production.

On learning to interrogate our own privilege in order to build more transparent, accountable, fairer scholarly organisations.

This week saw the publication of a new journal article coauthored by Peter Wilkins and yours truly: Priego, E. & Wilkins, P., (2018). The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

We invite you to a free and public screening of the documentary film Paywall: The Business of Scholarship (dir. and prod. Jason Schmitt, 2018) at City, University of London, on Wednesday 17 October 2018 from 17:30.

A formal complaint to the European Ombudsman has been submitted about the recent announcement that Elsevier has been subcontracted to monitor the future progress of Open Science in Europe.

A look into the user_lang code in the #DH2018 archive I collected.

Happy to announce I will be DJing at a party in homage to Manrico Montero (1973-2018) in Mexico City.