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    Encryption and Technologies of Power in a (Cyber-)War Torn World

    1179 words | 4.5 minute read

    By Ksenia Ermoshina and Francesca Musiani 19th April 2022 After three years of fieldwork and three years of writing, re-writing and polishing with the patient and kind help of Mattering Press editors, our book Concealing for Freedom: The Making of Encryption, Secure Messaging, and Digital Liberties has today been published. As we finished writing and…Read more

    Author Mattering PressPosted on April 19, 2022April 19, 2022Tags Concealing for Freedom, encryption, Francesca Musiani, freedom, Ksenia Ermoshina, Russia, telegram, ukraine, war

    Two new books

    300 words | 1.5 minute read

    Boxes: A Field Guide Mattering Press is proud to announce the publication of a major new text, Boxes: A Field Guide, edited by Susanne Bauer, Martina Schlünder, and Maria Rentetzi. This book invites readers into a new field: box studies. It explores the ‘wildlife’ of box practices, in the process aiming to challenge our senses…Read more

    Author Joe DeVillePosted on August 17, 2020August 17, 2020Tags boxes, geoff bowker, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Lucy Suchman, Maria Rentetzi, Martina Schluender, Nikolaus Pöchhacker, Nina Klimburg-Witjes, sensing insecurity, Susanne Bauer

    Behind the scenes with the authors: Ghost Managed Medicine

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    Introduction to Ghost Managed Medicine

    Sergio Sismondo, author of Ghost Managed Medicine, takes us on a journey through the writing and development of his ideas. > What sparked your interest in studying the inner workings of big pharma? I owe my interest to some excellent presentations and papers by people like Jeremy Greene, Jennifer Fishman, Andy Lakoff and David Healy….Read more

    Author Anna DowrickPosted on October 31, 2019October 31, 2019Tags 4S, Ghost Managed Medicine, Sergio Sismondo

    Behind the scenes with the editors: Ghost Managed Medicine

    876 words | 3.5 minute read

    Introduction to Ghost Managed Medicine

    In this Q&A, editor Endre Dányi gives us a glimpse behind the scenes of the editing and production of Ghost Managed Medicine. > What sparked your interest in Ghost Managed Medicine (GMM) when you read the proposal? We really liked the idea of a book that focuses on an important and politically relevant topic through an…Read more

    Author Anna DowrickPosted on October 25, 2019October 25, 2019Tags Editors, Endre Dányi, Ghost Managed Medicine, GMM, Sergio Sismondo, Uli Beisel

    New Platforms for Open Access Book Distribution: A project update

    981 words | 4 minute read

    By Joe Deville & Julien McHardy [Originally published on the OpenAIRE website on 8th July 2018, at https://blogs.openaire.eu/?p=3546] The New Platforms project met for its final workshop on 25th June. The workshop was hosted by the Centre for Post-Digital Cultures at Coventry University. Present were representatives from most of the presses on the project, including Joe…Read more

    Author Joe DeVillePosted on January 28, 2019Tags Joe Deville, Julien McHardy, metadata, New Platforms, Open Access, OpenAIRE

    Mattering marketing: Experiments in sharing

    216 words | 1 minute read

    This week we have launched Mattering Press’ first ever social media marketing campaign, which will open up our books to a larger audience and will offer existing readers new ways of engaging with the texts. Starting with Practising Comparison, and lasting for around a month, we will post key quotes and references from the various…Read more

    Author Mattering PressPosted on March 20, 2017April 20, 2018

    Mattering Update

    686 words | 2.5 minute read

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    Many things have happened in recent months. In this update, we gather some of these together. As you probably already know, in July 2016 our first four books were published. Many thanks to those of you who acted as authors, editors, reviewers, and early readers! In case you haven’t seen the final products yet, you…Read more

    Author Mattering PressPosted on March 3, 2017April 20, 2018

    Constrained access – constrained voices

    717 words | 3 minute read

    A would-be South African author’s story.  A few years ago, as a fresh PhD graduate (Open University, UK) I was encouraged by the examiners to pursue the possibility of book publication. The theoretical work of my PhD drew on STS; the empirical work on my ‘home’ context of South Africa. My ultimate aim was to talk back…Read more

    Author Lisa KanePosted on February 23, 2017April 20, 2018Tags OA, Publishing, South Africa, sts

    After Barcelona

    843 words | 3.5 minute read

    After Barcelona 3

    It was a particularly busy summer for Mattering Press. In July this year, after four years of hard work establishing the press, we finally published our first four books. Our official launch was held on the 25th July in London – thanks, once again, to Tahani Nadim for her wonderful report about the event. But the launch…Read more

    Author Endre Dányi, Natalie Gill and Michaela SpencerPosted on October 10, 2016April 20, 2018Tags 4S, Demonstrations, EASST, Valuations Studies

    Open Access publishing and the future of the university

    2618 words | 10 minute read

    What untapped potential is there for universities and Open Access publishing initiatives to provide each other with mutual benefit and support? This is a question that has stayed with me since the end of a small workshop that I organised in late July, funded jointly by the Institute for Social Futures and the Centre for…Read more

    Author Joe DeVillePosted on September 29, 2016April 20, 2018Tags Mayfly Books, Meson Press, Open Access, Open Humanities Press, The Goldsmiths Press, UCL Press, university, University of Westminster Press

    Mattering Press launches

    1134 words | 4.5 minute read

    Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed,not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1952, p. 67 At some point during the proceedings that constituted the launch of Mattering Press at Conway Hall[1] I found myself looking at pictures of friends. Projected onto…Read more

    Author Tahani NadimPosted on August 5, 2016April 20, 2018Tags books, care, Conway Hall, friendship, launch, London, responsibility, scholarship, Tahani Nadim

    The future of the book in STS

    872 words | 3.5 minute read

    On the 12th November, at the 4S conference in Denver, Colorado, Mattering Press held a mini-symposium on the ‘Future of the STS book,’ as part of the ‘Making and Doing’ sessions. This symposium was held as part of the conference’s first ever ‘Making and Doing’ session, and featured a few friends of Mattering Press – authors,…Read more

    Author Mattering PressPosted on December 15, 2015April 20, 2018Tags 4S, books, Denver, Endre Dányi, future, Geoffrey Bowker, Ivan da Costa Marques, John Law, Julien McHardy, Michaela Spencer, sts, Tahani Nadim, Uli Beisel

    Why Books Matter: There is value in what cannot be evaluated

    1968 words | 7.5 minute read

    Academic publishing is intricately bound to evaluation. The demand to publish as much as possible has led to the chopping up of research into minimum publishable units across journals that are easily counted, ranked and evaluated. Books, however, are not so easily accounted for. Julien McHardy argues the value of books is in this freedom…Read more

    Author Julien McHardyPosted on December 15, 2015April 20, 2018Tags esCTS, evaluation, Julien McHardy, Open Access, politics

    Joe Deville presents at Radical Open Access

    151 words | 1 minute read

    In June this year, Joe Deville gave a talk at the Radical Open Access conference, at Coventry University.  Organised by Janneke Adema and Gary Hall (that’s the Gary Hall from our advisory board), the event hosted two days of intense discussion amongst a range of individuals and collectives involved in attempts to develop visions for Open Access…Read more

    Author Mattering PressPosted on October 29, 2015April 20, 2018Tags Coventry University, Eileen Joy, Gary Hall, Janneke Adema, Joe Deville, Open Access, Radical Open Access

    Natalie Gill joins Mattering Press

    66 words | 0.5 minute read

    A new member of the editorial board. Mattering Press is pleased to announce that Natalie Gill has joined the team of Editors at the press. Natalie is interested in specificity, relationality, the mundane and the way subjectivities, objects and contexts are enacted in political practices. Her PhD thesis explored the daily routines and practices of…Read more

    Author Mattering PressPosted on July 25, 2014April 20, 2018Tags Editorial team

    From Openness to Openings

    2341 words | 9 minute read

    Reflections on the Experiments in Knowledge Production workshop. Originally published June 18th, 2014.  Science and Technology Studies (STS) has a long-standing interest in analysing the politics of knowledge production. One of its strengths has been the demonstration of the contingencies, blindspots and power-plays that are wrapped up in the creation, standardisation, and distribution of knowledge…Read more

    Author Endre Dányi and Joe DeVillePosted on June 18, 2014April 20, 2018Tags Big Data and Society, care, CSISP, experimentation, LIMN, Open Access, openness, transparency

    Samizdat lessons for Mattering Press

    2266 words | 8.5 minute read

    Originally published 12th March, 2014.  Many thanks, Nicholas, for the kind introduction – it’s great to be back as a guest blogger! Last time I was here, I wrote a series of posts about the material practices of democratic politics, and the ways in which they were being coordinated and distributed by the Hungarian Parliament…Read more

    Author Endre DányiPosted on March 12, 2014April 20, 2018Tags ethics, infrastructure, invisibilities, politics, Samizdat, self-publishing

    New forms of care for STS books

    1136 words | 4.5 minute read

    Originally published 4th December, 2013. Mattering Press is a new book publishing initiative committed to the creation and publishing of widely accessible, carefully produced, and intellectually vibrant books in Science and Technology Studies (STS). Our first books are due to be published in 2014.  In September of this year we had the opportunity to introduce the…Read more

    Author Sebastian Abrahamsson and Joe DeVillePosted on December 13, 2013April 20, 2018Tags care, EASST

Making Mattering Press

We use this space to discuss the ongoing making of Mattering Press and to create an open archive of our progress as a publisher

Posts

  • Encryption and Technologies of Power in a (Cyber-)War Torn World
  • Two new books
  • Behind the scenes with the authors: Ghost Managed Medicine
  • Behind the scenes with the editors: Ghost Managed Medicine
  • New Platforms for Open Access Book Distribution: A project update
  • Mattering marketing: Experiments in sharing
  • Mattering Update
  • Constrained access – constrained voices
  • After Barcelona
  • Open Access publishing and the future of the university
  • Mattering Press launches
  • The future of the book in STS
  • Why Books Matter: There is value in what cannot be evaluated
  • Joe Deville presents at Radical Open Access
  • Natalie Gill joins Mattering Press
  • From Openness to Openings
  • Samizdat lessons for Mattering Press
  • New forms of care for STS books

Tags

  • 4S
  • books
  • boxes
  • care
  • Concealing for Freedom
  • Demonstrations
  • EASST
  • Editors
  • encryption
  • Endre Dányi
  • Francesca Musiani
  • freedom
  • geoff bowker
  • Geoffrey C. Bowker
  • Ghost Managed Medicine
  • GMM
  • Joe Deville
  • Julien McHardy
  • Ksenia Ermoshina
  • Lucy Suchman
  • Maria Rentetzi
  • Mayfly Books
  • metadata
  • New Platforms
  • Nikolaus Pöchhacker
  • Nina Klimburg-Witjes
  • OA
  • Open Access
  • OpenAIRE
  • politics
  • Publishing
  • Russia
  • sensing insecurity
  • Sergio Sismondo
  • South Africa
  • sts
  • Susanne Bauer
  • Tahani Nadim
  • telegram
  • The Goldsmiths Press
  • ukraine
  • Uli Beisel
  • University of Westminster Press
  • Valuations Studies
  • war

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