[JoPP-Public] Future of Journal of Peer Production (JoPP): the end of the line?

Mon Nov 12 10:50:55 CET 2018

A refined, combined, idea:

Issue #14 could be an open-ended "collective" issue, whose articles are
edited by the JoPP community as a whole, indeed peer produced :-)

They could include text from previous work, but "remixed" with the new
collective text like what George Perec did in his "Life: a user manual",
and also The residents with their music.

There could be one new article every year or something, following a
simple structure or narrative. It could be something around what needs
to be done in this moment of crisis and urgency ...

On 12.11.18 10:05, Mathieu O'Neil wrote:
>
> Hi Panos
>
>
> I like it, though in my mind "OPEN" is taking shape as a war machine
> against the academic paywalls of the world so needs to pack a punch
> and have a clear shape. Then again it could indeed have a
> future-facing section which keeps growing. Or #14 could be the issue
> that keeps growing...? NO NAME?
>
>
> As for the other idea, sure, I very much agree that we need to do more
> outreach, via shorter texts, or slogans, posters, etc. Hopefully these
> ideas will coalesce more when we finalise the ideas around OA/OPEN.
>
>
> cheers
>
> Mathieu
>
>
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> (JoPP): the end of the line?
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Two quick ideas that came to my mind while watching a documentary on
> "The residents", titled "Theory of obscurity", toward moving to more
> "experimental" grounds and questioning the whole academic publishing
> system at its roots.
>
> First, I would reject the need for regular finalized issues, but would
> like to see a publication that is "slow" and incremental. In that sense
> why not treat the "Open" issue as truly open and keep adding articles to
> it over time? This could keep the journal going on for very long, and
> without stress :-)
>
> Second, and more ambitiously, I think it would be interesting to produce
> a whole "anonymous" issue, without naming the editors nor the authors
> and without any references in the articles. Just "pure ideas". "Us" who
> have more or less access to the "gated" world of knowledge, could we
> summarize (a small part of) what is interesting to know without taking
> ownership of the ideas, and without requiring from something to have
> read 100 books to understand a single sentence?
>
> I could write more about both ideas, but for now I just throw them to
> you in case they could be transformed to something interesting :-)
>
> Best,
>
> Panos.