Copyright

Sarah-Mai Dang

Published On

2021-05-04

Page Range

pp. 129-150

Language

  • English

Print Length

21 pages

9. Publish Less, Communicate More!

Reflecting the Potentials and Challenges of a Hybrid Self-Publishing Project

Chapter of: Shaping the Digital Dissertation: Knowledge Production in the Arts and Humanities (pp. 129–150)

Sarah-Mai Dang, working from within the context of German academic parameters, questions a publication process that relies on economic structures often beyond the reach of the graduate and maintaining the ‘symbolic capital of the book’. Instead, she chose to publish her research in four different formats, trying to undo a staid and costly convention that not only prevented affordable (for both author and reader) public dissemination, but also a speedy delivery of scholarship and access to an international audience. Simultaneously, as a media studies scholar, she turned this process into a research project, taking stock of data to measure impact.

Contributors

Sarah-Mai Dang

(author)
Principal Investigator, "Aesthetics of Access" (DAVIDF), Institute of Media Studies at Philipps University of Marburg
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1960-247X

Sarah-Mai Dang is Principal Investigator of the BMBF research group "Aesthetics of Access. Visualizing Research Data on Women in Film History" (DAVIDF) at the Institute of Media Studies, Philipps University Marburg, Germany. Additionally, she is project leader of the international DFG research network "New Directions in Film Historiography". With a doctoral degree in Film Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and a Master of Arts from the University of Michigan, her current research and teaching focus on digital data visualization and the production and dissemination of scholarly knowledge. Based on her research interests, she founded the hybrid self-publishing project oa books, where she published her dissertation on aesthetic experience, feminist theory and chick flicks and blogs about academic publishing. She also initiated the Open Media Studies Blog and the Open Media Studies working group.