Gary Hall (born 21 March 1962) is a British
cultural
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and
media theorist and Professor of Media and Performing Arts in the Coventry University Department of Media, UK.
Career
Hall is a cultural and media theorist working on continental philosophy, cultural politics, cultural studies, new media technologies, and the
digital humanities
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. In 2008 he authored ''Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now''. Published by the
University of Minnesota Press, it was the first book on
open access publishing and archiving written specifically from a critical theory perspective.
Together with Clare Birchall,
Joanna Zylinska and
Open Humanities Press, Hall created the
Jisc-funded project ''LivBL: Living Books about Life'', a sustainable series of electronic
open access books about life - with life understood both philosophically and biologically - providing a bridge between the humanities and the sciences.
In 1999, along with Dave Boothroyd, Hall founded the online, open access,
peer-reviewed
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journal of cultural studies and cultural theory, ''
Culture Machine''. In 2006, together with Steve Green, he established the first open access archive for cultural and media studies research, CSeARCH (Cultural Studies e-Archive), and in 2006, working with Sigi Jottkandt, David Ottina, and Paul Ashton, he founded Open Humanities Press in response to the perceived crisis in academic publishing.
Open Humanities Press
Open Humanities Press was founded In 2006 by Sigi Jottkandt, David Ottina, and Paul Ashton alongside Gary Hall. OHP is the first
open-access publishing ‘house’ explicitly dedicated to critical and
cultural theory with the aim to develop a new sustainable business model for the open publication and dissemination of academic research and scholarship in the arts and humanities. In 2009 OHP launched the 'monograph project'. Designed to publish monographs in an open access manner, this project is run in collaboration with the
University of Michigan
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Library’s Scholarly Publishing Office,
University of California
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, Irvine, University of California, Los Angeles Library, and the
Public Knowledge Project headed by
John Willinsky at
Stanford University
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.
Published books
* ''Digitize This Book!: The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now'' (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), the first book on open access publishing and archiving written specifically from a critical theory perspective.
* ''Experimenting: Essays with Samuel Weber'' (Fordham University Press, 2007), edited with Simon Morgan Wortham, the first book of its kind on the work of the theorist of technology Samuel Weber.
* ''New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory'' (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), edited with Clare Birchall, exploring some of the new directions being mapped out across the intersections of cultural studies and cultural theory by a new 'post-Birmingham School' generation of writers. Themes and issues addressed in this volume include the relation of cultural studies to new media, the posthumanities, German media theory, anti-capitalism, ethics, and the transnational, as well as to the philosophy of Agamben, Badiou, Deleuze, Kittler, Žižek and others.
* ''Culture in Bits'' (Continuum, 2002),
"Culture in Bits by Gary Hall"
/ref> in which Hall argues for a rethinking of attitudes toward cultural theory within media, communication and cultural studies.
References
External links
Coventry University staff profile
Culture Machine
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1962 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Media studies writers
Sociology of culture
Open access activists
Academics of Coventry University